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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name for someone who lived by a drovers’ road, Middle High German vihewec, from vehe, vihe, vich ‘cattle’ + wec ‘way’, ‘path’. The surname originated chiefly in Saxony, Silesia, and Bohemia.

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