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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name for a knife grinder, from Middle High German wetzstein ‘whetstone’.
  • German : habitational name from a lost Wetzstein near Emmendingen.
  • German : from a field name, for example Wezstein near Esslingen.

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