Family name origins & meanings
- German : metonymic occupational name for a seller of flints, or topographic name for someone who lived near an outcrop of flint, from Middle High German viur ‘fire’ + stein ‘stone’.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name composed of German Feuer ‘fire’ + Stein ‘stone’, or an ornamental name from the German Feuerstein ‘flint’.