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wymer Name Meaning and History

English: from the Middle English personal name Wymer, Old English Wigm?r (composed of the elements wig ‘war’ + m?r ‘famous’), reinforced by the cognate Continental Germanic form Wigmar, introduced into England from France by the Normans. This also became confused with an Old Breton personal name, Wiumarch, composed of the elements uuiu ‘worthy’ + march ‘horse’.

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Distribution of wymer Families in the US in 1920
Number of wymer families
 43-84
 15-42
 1-14
 0
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