Släkthistoria för Wrest
Wrest Vad efternamn betyder
from Middle English wrest ‘noble magnanimous’.from Middle English wrest wrast *rest ‘something twisted’ (Old English *wrǣst) perhaps with the sense ‘thicket’. The surname may be topographic for a person who lived at or near a thicket or toponymic from any place so named such as Wrest Park in Silsoe (Beds) and Wrest Wood in Bexhill (Sussex). variant spelling of Rest.
Källa: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain, 2021
