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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (also Fürth) : topographic name for someone living at a ford, Middle High German vurt ‘ford’, ‘path’, or a habitational name from any of several places called Fürth, for example near Nuremberg.
  • Jewish (western Ashkenazic) : habitational name of the same origin as 1.
  • Possibly also a variant spelling of Firth.

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