First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
Americanized spelling of German Fehsmeier, an occupational name for a spelt farmer, from Middle High German, Middle Low German vese ‘chaff’, ‘husk’, ‘spelt’ + Middle High German meier ‘(tenant) farmer’, ‘bailiff’.
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