Feige

Family name origins & meanings

• German : variant of Feig.
• German : topographic name for someone who lived by a fig tree, or metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of figs, from Middle High German vīge (Old High German fīga, from Latin ficus).
• Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from the Yiddish female personal name Feyge, a back-formation from Feygl (see Feigel), as if this contained the diminutive suffix -l.