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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : occupational name for an official in charge of weights and measures, from weger ‘weigher’
  • Dutch : from Middle Dutch sweger, a term denoting a relative by marriage. Compare German Schwager.
  • Dutch : from the Germanic personal name Swidger (see Schweickert).

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