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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name based on Old High German wān ‘hope’. Compare Wempe.
  • German : nickname for someone with a facial peculiarity, from Middle High German wengel, diminutive of wange ‘cheek’, ‘face’.

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