Last name: WENDT
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WENDT : This last name is indexed 79,208 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
WENDT : German and Danish: ethnic name for a Wend Middle High German wind(e). The Wends (i.e. Polabian Slavs Pomeranians and Sorbians) once occupied a large area of northeastern and eastern Germany (extending as far west as Lüneburg with an area called Wendland; see Wendland) and many German placenames and surnames are of Wendish origin. Today of all Wendish people only Sorbians still exist (in Lusatia in eastern Germany). See also Serbin 2.
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