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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. English: nickname for a cheerful person, from a reduced form of Anglo-Norman French enveisié ‘playful’, ‘merry’ (Old French envoisié, past participle of envoisier ‘to sport, enjoy oneself’).
  2. John Veazey came from England to MD in the late 17th century. Thomas Ward Veazey (b. 1774) was a MD legislator and planter.