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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from for example Warth in Glouceshire or Ward in Devon, which are named with Old English waroð ‘marshy ground by a shore or stream’ or from any of various minor places named with Old Norse varða ‘beacon’ (a derivative of varða ‘to guard’).
  • German : habitational name from any of various places named with an Old High German cognate of this element.

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