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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Altered spelling of German Fäseke or Feseke, a metonymic occupational name for a grain farmer or miller, or a nickname for a small and delicate person or for a person of no account from Middle Low German väseke(n) ‘grain husk’, ‘chaff’, ‘fiber’, ‘little thing’ or central German fasig ‘small and delicate’.

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