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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name for someone who lived in a place distinguished by a willow or willows, from Middle High German, Middle Low German wīde ‘willow’.
  • German : topographic name for a woodland dweller, from Middle Low German wede ‘wood’.

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