Updated June 9, 2019

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Family name origins & meanings

  • English : metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of vegetables or of medicinal herbs and spices, from Middle English wurt, wort ‘plant’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname for a reliable person who could be trusted to keep his word, from Yiddish vort, German Wort ‘word’ + man, Mann ‘man’.
  • Americanized spelling of German Wortmann.