Family name origins & meanings
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for an innkeeper, Middle High German wirt, German Wirt.
- German : status name for a man who was head of a family and master of his own household, from the same word in the sense ‘provider’.
- German : from a short form of Werdo, from a Germanic personal name formed with werd ‘worth’ as the first element.