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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from a place in Bohemia called Waldstein, named with Middle High German walt ‘forest’ + stein ‘stone’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name composed of German Wald ‘forest’ + Stein ‘stone’.

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