Frequency: (123)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German: habitational name from any of several places so named, the first part referring to the Wends (Middle High German Wint, Wende ‘Slav’), the original Slavic population; the element -roth (from Middle High German roden ‘to clear’) denotes a settlement on cleared land.
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