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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name for someone from Wessel in Saxony or from a place named with Middle Low German wessele ‘exchange’, ‘trade’.
  • German : from a pet form of the personal name Werner, which in the forms Wessela and Wessle is also recorded as a female and a Jewish personal name in th Middle Ages.

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