Meaning & origin
What it means
Wisner goes back to German Wiesner, meaning “meadows.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Wisner’s family of names
In German usage, Wisner has a later derivative in WHISNER. In English usage, Wisner as a surname was borrowed from the German form WIESNER.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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