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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech and Polish : from German Feit (see Veit).
  • German : variant spelling of Veit.
  • German : occupational name for a steward or bailiff, Middle High German voit. Compare Fauth, Vogt.
  • Perhaps from an obsolete English personal name derived from Anglo-Norman French afaitie ‘accomplished’, ‘skillful’.

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