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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements wīg ‘war’ + land ‘land’, ‘territory’. This name was borne by the supernaturally skilled smith of Germanic folk legend, and for this reason it may in part have been given as a nickname to blacksmiths.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : presumably an adoption of the German surname.

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