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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from any of various places so named, for example near Aschaffenburg.
  • German : topographic name from Middle High German wise ‘meadow’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : probably an ornamental adoption of German Wiesen ‘meadows’.

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