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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized spelling of Dutch and North German Wriedt.
  • English : from Old English wride ‘twist’, ‘turn’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a winding stream, or perhaps a nickname for a devious man.

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