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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name from Middle High German wazzer ‘water’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name or a metonymic occupational name for a water-carrier, from German Wasser, Yiddish vaser ‘water’.

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