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