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Feist

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname for a stout person, from, respectively, Middle High German veiz(e)t and modern German feist ‘well covered’, ‘well fed’.

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