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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : from the personal name Wit, a short form of Witold, a derivative of Lithuanian Vytautas, a compound of vyti ‘to guide’ + tauta ‘the people’.
  • Polish : from a pet form of another personal name Wit with a different etymology, namely a derivative of Latin Vitus, from vita ‘life’. Compare Italian Vito.

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