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wander Name Meaning and History

  1. German: occupational name for a builder, one who built walls, from an agent derivative of Middle High German want ‘wall’ (from Old High German wenten ‘to wind or weave’; the earliest domestic walls were of wattle and daub construction, made from woven hurdles packed with clay).
  2. German: occupational name for a maker or seller of cloth, from an agent derivative of a reduced form of Middle High German gewant ‘cloth’, ‘garment’ (from Old High German giwant, likewise a derivative of wenten ‘to weave’).
  3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Wanderer, a nickname from Yiddish vandern ‘to wander or hike’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of wander Families in the US in 1920
Number of wander families
 44-86
 15-43
 1-14
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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