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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : status name for someone who was the secretary of a Jewish administration or a Jewish official responsible for the ratification of community impost treaties, from the Polish term wiernik.
  • German : variant of Wernicke.

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