Frequency: (118)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Probably a respelling of German Wiesentanner: unexplained; it could perhaps be a habitational name for someone from Wessentin in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania.
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