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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from the female personal name Fede, from Latin fides ‘faith’.
  • Italian : reduced form of the personal name Federico.
  • Italian : short form of the medieval personal name Bonafede, an omen name meaning ‘good faith’.

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