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Updated June 9, 2019

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.

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