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:
Finnish: from the Finnish form of the Russian personal name Fe(o)dor, from Greek Theodōros (see Theodore). As a family name it is first recorded in the Savo region in the 16th century.