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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Wythe.
  • German spelling of the Slavic personal name Wit (see Witek).
  • Danish and Norwegian : nickname for a broad man, from wiidh ‘broad’, or for a pale or fair-haired person, from German weiss ‘white’.

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