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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA surname originating as a patronymic. · A male given name from the Germanic languages, modern transferred use of the surname. · An unincorporated community in Madison Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana. · A minor city in Mississippi County, Missouri.
Ultimately from the Old English personal name Wigheard, from wīg (“war”) + heard (“hard, brave”), later also used as a Middle English diminutive of the names Guy and William.
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