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The wiese Surname

wiese Name Meaning and History

  1. topographic name from Middle High German wise ‘meadow’.
  2. habitational name for someone from any of various places called Wies, Wiese, Wiesa, or possibly also Wiesau.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of wiese Families in the US in 1920
Number of wiese families
 102-202
 35-101
 1-34
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