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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a tailor, from Middle High German vingerhuot, Yiddish fingerhut ‘thimble’ (literally ‘finger hat’). The word also means ‘foxglove’, but this sense is unlikely to be relevant to the surname.

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