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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : topographic name for someone living near a vineyard, from Middle High German wīngart, or a habitational name from any of numerous places named Weingarten.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Weingarten ‘vineyard’ (see 1 above).

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