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fertig Name Meaning and History

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname from Middle High German vertec ‘skillful’, ‘ready’, ‘prepared’ (German fertig), Old High German fertig, a derivative of vart ‘journey’, ‘expedition’, and so meaning originally ‘ready for an expedition’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of fertig Families in the US in 1920
Number of fertig families
 39-76
 14-38
 1-13
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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