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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French and English (of Norman origin) : from a Norman French form of the Germanic personal name Wido (see Guy).
  • German : variant spelling of Vian, a short form of the medieval personal name Vivianus (from Latin, meaning ‘lively’).

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