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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name beginning with wīg ‘battle’, ‘war’.
  • Polish : from the personal name Wiech, a pet form of any of several Old Polish names beginning with Wie-, e.g. Wielisław, from wieli- ‘great’ + sław ‘glory’.

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