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Updated June 9, 2019

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.

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