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The feige Surname

feige Name Meaning and History

  1. German: variant of Feig.
  2. 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 vige (Old High German figa, from Latin ficus).
  3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish female personal name Feyge, a back-formation from Feygl (see Feigel), as if this contained the diminutive suffix -l.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of feige Families in the US in 1920
Number of feige families
 8-14
 3-7
 1-2
 0
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