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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and French (Alsace) : distinguishing name for a tenant farmer (see Meyer) who lived by a wood or copse (Middle High German wite).
  • German and French (Alsace) : possibly also a variant of Widmeyer.

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