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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from Wertheim, a place on the Main river, named from Old High German werid ‘island’ (see Wert) + heim ‘homestead’. The German surname may have arisen from various other places so named.

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