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Updated April 18, 2022

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Wilding.
  • German and Dutch : variant of De Wilde.
  • German : habitational name from a place so named near Siegen.
  • Swedish (Wildén) : ornamental name, probably formed with wild, old spelling of vild ‘wild’ + the common surname suffix -én, from Latin -enius.
  • German : variant of Weisemann.

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