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The waybright Surname

waybright Name Meaning and History

Americanized form of German Weibrecht or Weybrecht, from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements wig ‘battle’, ‘war’ + berht ‘bright’ (see Weybright).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of waybright Families in the US in 1920
Number of waybright families
 26-50
 9-25
 1-8
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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