as a Last Name
- 1,271
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Wander
Meaning & Origins
German: occupational name for a builder, one who built walls, from an agent derivative of Middle High German want ‘wall’ (from Old High German wenten ‘to wind or weave’; the earliest domestic walls were of wattle and daub construction, made from woven hurdles packed with clay).
| 21,668th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,271
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Minnesota
- has the most people named Wander per capita
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