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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swedish : ornamental name composed of the elements Wid-, an uncertain element, possibly Old Swedish viþr ‘wood’, ‘forest’ or from a place name formed with Old Swedish vīd ‘wide’ + man ‘man’.
  • Altered spelling of German Widmann.

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