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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German and Swiss German : metonymic occupational name for a ferryman, from Middle High German ver(e). The name is common in Zurich, where, according to Bahlow, a journeyman of the boatmen’s guild named Feer is recorded in 1468.

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