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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German; of uncertain derivation; possibly a nickname from Old High German (or modern Low German ) fader ‘father’, or alternatively an occupational name for a carpenter who fashioned roof beams, from pfate ‘beam’, ‘timber’.
  • Respelling of German Feder.

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