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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : probably a nickname for a spinner or tailor, from the verb fädeln ‘to work with thread’. See also Faden.
  • Respelling of Fed(d)eler, North German form of Fiedler, or Pfadler, a variant of Pfader (see Fader).

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