The feist Surname
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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