Willner Family History

German: habitational name for someone from any of various places for example in Saxony Upper Franconia the Upper Palatinate and Upper Austria called Wildenau from Old High German wildi ‘wild uncultivated’ (with the adjective retaining the weak dative ending originally used after a preposition and article) + ouwa ‘wet land marsh’.

Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): habitational name from Yiddish vilner denoting a native or inhabitant of the Lithuanian city of Vilnius (Vilne in Yiddish).