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Updated January 11, 2024

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name composed of German Wein ‘wine’ + Stein ‘stone’.
  • Perhaps also German : topographic name for someone who lived by a field named with Middle High German wīn ‘wine’ + stein ‘stone’.

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