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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : unexplained; perhaps an altered form of Weidmann, a habitational name from a place named Weide, from weide ‘meadow’, ‘pasture’ or a topographic name from the same word.
  • Swedish : unexplained.

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