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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : topographic name for someone who lived by a spring or stream, Middle Low German welle.
  • German : variant of Well 3.
  • Dutch : from a short form of the personal names Willem (see Wilhelm) or Wouter (see Walter).

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