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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : habitational name from any of various places named Wallrath or Wallroth (for example in Hesse).
  • alternatively, from a personal name formed with Middle Low German wal-rav(e) ‘raven of the battle field’ (see Walraven).

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