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feist Name Meaning and History

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’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of feist Families in the US in 1920
Number of feist families
 37-71
 13-36
 1-12
 0
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