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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant of Wegwerth (from German Wegwarte), probably a topographic name or a metonymic occupational name for an herbalist, from Middle High German wegewarte ‘succory’, ‘wild chicory’, a medicinal plant.

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