Widmer Family History
Widmer Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Christoph, Hans, Helmut, Sieg, Armin, Ernst, Hans Peter, Konrad, Othmar, Siegfried, Ute.
German and Swiss German: status name from Middle High German widemer ‘tenant farmer who worked on land that had been endowed to a parish church, Middle High German widem(e) ‘prebend’.
German: variant of Wittmer 1.
Germanized form of Slovenian and Croatian Vidmar , itself of the same ultimately German origin as 1 above. Compare Widmar .
English: habitational name from Widmere in Ibstone (Buckinghamshire), named from Old English wīthig ‘willow, withy’ + mere ‘pool’. The rare personal name Widmer may also have contributed to the surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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