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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle High German wurst ‘sausage’ (a collective noun), hence either a metonymic occupational name for a butcher who specialized in the production of sausages, or a nickname for a plump person or someone who was particularly fond of sausages.

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