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vulgo

Vulgo is Latin for commonly or popularly; before a name it introduces the name a person or place was commonly called, such as a nickname.

Vulgo is an adverb meaning commonly or popularly. In records it works like alias: the official name comes first, then vulgo and the name people actually used.

That second name can be the key to a family. A man written as Joannes Huber vulgo Wirth may appear in other records only under the everyday name, so search both.

As seen in a recordLatin burial register, 1800s
Joannes Huber, vulgo Wirth, agricola in Hof
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Daily Ancestor. "vulgo." Dictionary of Old Record Words. https://dailyancestor.com/dictionary/latin/vulgo. Last checked 2026-10-10.

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