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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : metonymic occupational name for a stoker in a smithy or public baths, or nickname for someone with red hair or a fiery temper, from Middle High German viur ‘fire’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from modern German Feuer ‘fire’.

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