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Updated: June 9, 2019

Girl name origins & meanings

  • Latin : Faithful

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian, Catalan, Galician, and Spanish : from the personal name Fidel, from Latin fidelis ‘of the faith’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a fiddler, from Yiddish fidl ‘fiddle’.

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