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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : probably from a nickname for a hospitable man, someone who habitually used the greeting willkomm ‘welcome’, although the epithet may have belonged to a house rather than to a person.
  • German : from the personal name Willcomo, testified from the 8th century.

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