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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname from Middle High German vertec ‘skillful’, ‘ready’, ‘prepared’ (German fertig), Old High German fertīg, a derivative of vart ‘journey’, ‘expedition’, and so meaning originally ‘ready for an expedition’.

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