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The wenzel Surname

wenzel Name Meaning and History

German: from the personal name Wenzel, a pet form (with the German diminutive suffix -el) of the Middle High German personal name Wenze, a borrowing from Slavic representing a short form of the Old Czech personal name Veceslav (see Vacek; the borrowing took place before Czech lost its nasal vowels).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The wenzel name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the wenzel family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of wenzel Families in the US in 1920
Number of wenzel families
 99-196
 34-98		 1-33
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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