Wanner Family History
Wanner Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Fritz, Armin, Dieter, Franz, Johann, Theresia.
German and Swiss German: occupational name for a winnower, someone who used a winnowing basket or fan to separate grain from chaff (see Wannemacher ).
German: topographic name for someone who lived in a basket-shaped valley or on a basket-shaped knoll (see Wann ), the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.
German: habitational name for someone from Wanne in North Rhine-Westphalia and Baden-Württemberg or from Wanna in Lower Saxony.
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Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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