Wielenga Family History
Wielenga Name Meaning
West Frisian and Dutch:: from Dutch wiel ‘wheel’ and the Frisian suffix -enga (see 2 below) an occupational name for a constructor of wheels or for a weaver because of his spinning wheel. habitational name for someone who lives near a wiel ‘pond (as a result of a dyke breakthrough)’. It is formed with the Frisian suffix -enga a variant of -inga (from the patronymic suffix -ing and genitive plural ending -a).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022