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Updated January 23, 2020

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Wäh) : nickname for a smart, good looking person, from Middle High German wæhe ‘pretty’, ‘neat’.
  • Chinese : variant of Hua 2.
  • Other Southeast Asian : unexplained.

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