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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name for someone who lived by the defenses of a town or village, for example a wall, ditch, or fence, Middle High German wer.
  • North German : from a reduced form of the personal name Weder, composed of the Germanic elements widu ‘wood’, ‘forest’ + hari ‘army’.

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