Updated June 9, 2019

Find Baby Names

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) and German : metonymic occupational name for a baker, from Middle High German wizbrōt, German Weissbrot ‘white bread’; compare Weisbecker. White bread would have been something of a delicacy in the Middle Ages, when coarse brown bread was the norm. In some instances the Jewish surname is of ornamental origin.