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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : nickname for a fat man, from Middle Low German vett ‘fat’.
  • English : nickname from Old French fait, Middle English fet ‘suitable’, ‘comely’.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farms named with Old Norse fit ‘meadow’.

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