Phenix

Family name origins & meanings

• Northern English and Scottish : variant of Fenwick.
• Canadian French (Phénix) : from Old French fénix ‘phoenix’ (Latin phœnix), presumably a nickname, perhaps of anecdotal origin.
• A man of this name, known also as Dauphiné, from the Savoie region of France, is documented in Repentigny, Quebec, in 1721.