Weckwerth
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Weckwerth
Frequency: (223)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German: variant of Wegwerth (from German Wegwarte), probably a topographic name or a metonymic occupational name for an herbalist, from Middle High German wegewarte ‘succory’, ‘wild chicory’, a medicinal plant.
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