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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Hungarian : from fej ‘head’, probably a nickname for someone with a big head. In modern Hungarian fejes means ‘stubborn’, but as this meaning dates back to the mid-18th century, it probably did not contributed to the origin of the surname.

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