Family name origins & meanings
- German : occupational name for a painter or plasterer, from an agent derivative of Middle High German wīzen ‘to make white’, ‘to whitewash’.
- German : variant of Weiser.
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname for someone with white hair or an exceptionally pale complexion, from an inflected form of Middle High German wīz ‘white’, German weiss.