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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name for someone who lived near high ground or by a prominent crag, from Middle High German vels ‘rock’, ‘cliff’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Fels ‘rock’.

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