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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from any of several places so named, the first part referring to the Wends (Middle High German Wint, Wende ‘Slav’), the original Slavic population; the element -roth (from Middle High German roden ‘to clear’) denotes a settlement on cleared land.

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