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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name for a winnower, someone who used a winnowing basket or fan to separate grain from chaff (see Wannemacher).
  • German : topographic name for someone who lived in a basket-shaped valley or on a basket-shaped knoll (see Wann), the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.

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