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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name for someone from a place named Wied, Wieden, or Wieda.
  • variant of German Weder.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from German Widder ‘ram’. Compare Widerman.

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