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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : perhaps a topographic name from Middle High German wuol, wüele ‘waterhole’ + -er suffix denoting an inhabitant.
  • habitational name for someone from a place named Wiehl or Wielen (see Wiele).

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