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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : probably a topographic name for someone living near a spring or a well used for fighting fires, from Middle High German viur ‘fire’ + born ‘spring’.
  • German : alternatively, perhaps a respelling of Feuerbaum, which is either a Rhenish nickname for a tall man or a topographic name for someone who lived by a juniper, Middle High German viurboum.

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