Last name origins & meanings:
- English: nickname for a clever or elegant man, from Old French
fin ‘fine’, ‘delicate’, ‘skilled’, ‘cunning’ (originally a noun
from Latin finis ‘end’, ‘extremity’, ‘boundary’, later used
also as an adjective in the sense ‘ultimate’, ‘excellent’).
- Jewish (American): Americanized spelling of Fein.
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