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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from Middle English winyard ‘vineyard’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a vineyard, or a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked in one.
  • Swedish : ornamental name formed with vin(d)- ‘wind’ + gard ‘farmhouse’, or a habitational name from a place so named.

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