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feder Name Meaning and History

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a trader in feathers (see Feather) or in quill pens, from Middle High German veder(e), German Feder ‘feather’, ‘quill’, ‘pen’.

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Distribution of feder Families in the US in 1840
Number of feder families
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