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wise Name Meaning and History

  1. English: nickname for a wise or learned person, or in some cases a nickname for someone suspected of being acquainted with the occult arts, from Middle English wise ‘wise’ (Old English wis). This name has also absorbed Dutch Wijs, a nickname meaning ‘wise’, and possibly cognates in other languages.
  2. Americanized form of German and Jewish Weiss ‘white’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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wise Family Facts

Distribution of wise Families in the US in 1920
Number of wise families
 648-1294
 217-647
 1-216
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 1584 - Messages: 3756
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Jim & Ruby Wise 65th. Anniversary woodsman1953 0
Louis Wise CHERBYD 0
Obit; Mildred D. Kerr (nee Wise) 1919-2OO8 woodsman1953 0
Maud(e) Wise Hairston CHERBYD 0
Wise Family from Paton, Greene co., Iowa jaciethomsen 3
Winn Parish Johne W. Wise genejini 0
Mary Elizabeth Wise of Orange Co Va oclarke11 0
Mary Elizabeth Wise of Orange Co Va oclarke11 0
Greene & Sarah (McSwain) Wise Family Reunion CKClark1973 0
Israel Wise rdallen 0
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