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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Veit.
  • South German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname from Middle High German feit ‘adorned’, ‘pretty’ (the same word as French fait, Latin factus).

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