Family name origins & meanings
- English : nickname for a cheerful person, from a reduced form of Anglo-Norman French enveisié ‘playful’, ‘merry’ (Old French envoisié, past participle of envoisier ‘to sport, enjoy oneself’).
- John Veazey came from England to MD in the late 17th century. Thomas Ward Veazey (b. 1774) was a MD legislator and planter.