Name Wedigo

Origin:

From Old High German words for wood, forest and child

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About the name Wedigo in particular

Gender:	male
Languages of use:	German
Popularity:	no rank in any popularity list in this database
Similarly written:	Indigo, Indigo Details

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About Wedekind, the group of names with the same origin as Wedigo

Language of origin:	Old High German
Info about origin:	old Germanic two-element name, frequent today in Germany as family name, but next to extinct as given name
	known from Widukind, leader of the Saxons (8th/9th century AD)
Words:	witu = the wood (in the sense of forest), the forest Old High German
	kind = the child Old High German
Topics:	Two-element name
Name variants:	Wedekind, Wedigo, Widukind, Wittekind Sortable list Details