Family name origins & meanings
- English : metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of vegetables or of medicinal herbs and spices, from Middle English wurt, wort ‘plant’.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname for a reliable person who could be trusted to keep his word, from Yiddish vort, German Wort ‘word’ + man, Mann ‘man’.
- Americanized spelling of German Wortmann.