Weiss Family History
Weiss Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for someone with white
hair or a remarkably pale complexion, from Middle High German
wiz ‘white’, German weiss.German: variant of
Weis.German: habitational name from any of various places
named Weis(s) or Weissen.German: from a short form of a Germanic
personal name formed with wig ‘battle’ or widu ‘wood’
as the first element.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Weiss Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Weiss families
 1,242 - 2,481  415 - 1,241 |
 1 - 414  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Weiss families
|
72 - 141 25 - 71 |
1 - 24 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Weiss families
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3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Weiss Family Origin
Weiss Immigration Information
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Weiss Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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