Origin and popularity of the name WERTH

Origin

Werth : 1: German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Wert. Among Jews the name may have been acquired as an artificial name.2: English: variant of Worth.

Wert : 1: German: topographic name for someone who lived on a river island or on a riverbank or on a patch of dry land in a fen all of which were senses of the Middle High German term wert werder.2: North German: occupational name for an innkeeper from Middle Low German wert; alternatively a nickname with the meaning ‘husband master of the house’.3: German: habitational name from any of the places called Werd Werth and Wörth.4: Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from German Wert ‘value’.

Werther : German:: 1: variant of Werth (see Wert 1 3) the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.2: occupational name from Middle High German warte ‘lookout observation point’. Compare Wartman.

Werthmann : German: variant of Werth (see Wert 1 3) with the addition of Middle High German man ‘man’.

Yorath : from the Welsh personal name Iorwerth (ior ‘lord’ + werth a mutated form of berth ‘handsome’). The name was taken to be equivalent to Edward hence the frequency of Edwards as a Welsh surname.

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