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The fey Surname

fey Name Meaning and History

  1. English: variant of Fay.
  2. Southern French: topographic name for someone who lived by a beech tree or beech wood.
  3. German: nickname for a vagrant, from Middle High German vehe ‘enmity’, ‘strife’.
  4. German: from a popular medieval pet form of the female personal name Sophie, honored as a martyr and saint.
  5. Danish: unexplained.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of fey Families in the US in 1920
Number of fey families
 53-103
 18-52
 1-17
 0
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