Wighard
Wighard (Wighart, Wichard , Weikard) is a male given name .
Origin and meaning
The name comes from Old High German and is derived from the words "wig" (fight) and hard.
Abbreviations
Wigge, Wigger and Wiggo.
Well-known namesake
- Wighard, 7th Archbishop of Canterbury (7th century)
- Wighard Strehlow (* 1939), chemist and alternative practitioner
literature
- Beate Varnhorn: Bertelsmann. The large lexicon of first names , 2008, p. 306.