The wuest Surname
wuest Name Meaning and History
- from Middle High German wüeste ‘empty’, ‘uncultivated’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived on a piece of waste or fallow land, or a nickname for a coarse or uncultivated man.
- habitational name from any of various places called Wust, for example in Brandenburg and Saxony.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Threads: 82 - Messages: 211
| Thread | Author | Replies |
| Wuests from Molzberg, Nassau Province,Germany |
 donwiest1
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| John WUEST Sr. m. Barbara HEIL | Virginia Harmon | 13 |
| Wuests from NewBraunfels, TX | Charles S. Wuest | 18 |
| Steven Wuest |
JIWelsch
| 0 |
| Tobias WUST (b. 1821) m. Maria DISSLIN - in Maulburg |
KarenLucero
| 1 |
| Meyer, Elizabeth (nee Wuest) obit |
ramsdensetc1
| 0 |
| WUEST on New York Passenger Lists 1851-1891 |
| 3 |
| George WUEST, Sunman, IN | Stella K. | 2 |
| Wuest, Schreiner |
BENSONK
| 1 |
| John A. WUEST m. August BORMAN |
brandyleeh
| 10 |
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