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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : metonymic occupational name for a gatherer or seller of firewood, from Old French fais ‘bundle of firewood’. See also Fagot.
  • Czech and Slovak : from the personal name Veits, from the Latin personal name Vitus.
  • German : variant spelling of Feix (see Veit).

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