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The widner Surname

widner Name Meaning and History

  1. topographic name for someone who lived by pastureland, from Middle High German weid(e) ‘grassland’, ‘pasture’ + -er, suffix denoting an inhabitant.
  2. variant of Widmer.

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

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Distribution of widner Families in the US in 1920
Number of widner families
 23-44
 8-22		 1-7
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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