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Feigel

Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

South German : variant of Feige 2.
German : nickname from Middle High German vīol ‘violet’.
Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from the Yiddish female personal name Feygl, which is from Yiddish foygl ‘bird’ (compare Vogel), a translation of the Hebrew name Tsipora (Zipporah) ‘bird’, borne by the wife of Moses.