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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle High German widemer ‘tenant of land or property belonging to a church’, an agent derivative of widem ‘prebend’.
  • German : variant of Wittmer 1.
  • English : habitational name from Widmere in Ibstone, Buckinghamshire, named from Old English wīdig ‘willow’ + mere ‘pool’.

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