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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name for a refiner of gold and other metals, from Middle English fine(n) ‘to refine or purify’ (a derivative of fine ‘fine’, ‘pure’).
  • Probably a translated form of German Feiner.

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