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wert Name Meaning and History

German: topographic name for someone who lived on an island in a river, or on a riverbank, or on a patch of dry land in a fen, all of which were senses of the Middle High German term wert, werder.

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Distribution of wert Families in the US in 1920
Number of wert families
 117-231
 40-116
 1-39
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