Family name origins & meanings
- English, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a furrier, from an agent derivative of Middle English fell, Middle Low German, Middle High German vel, or German Fell or Yiddish fel ‘hide’, ‘pelt’. See also Fell.
- German : variant of Felder.
- German : habitational name for someone from a place called Feld(e) or Feld(a) in Hesse.