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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Probably a respelling of French Fedit, Fedi, or Fedy, variants of Faidit, from the past participle of faidir ‘to outlaw’, ‘to treat as an enemy’, hence a nickname for an exile or outcast.

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