Family name origins & meanings
- South German : metonymic occupational name for a fiddler, from the dialect word figele ‘fiddle’, ‘violin’ (from Late Latin figella).
- South German : diminutive of Fiege, a variant of Füge, from Middle High German vüege ‘skillful’, ‘adroit’.
- South German : nickname from a dialect form of Middle High German vīol ‘violet’. Compare Feigel.