Feder: Surname History and Family Crest

If a Feder family bore arms, our report explains whose they were and what the blazon shows.

Meaning of the name

Feder is a German surname. Elsdon Smith's dictionary of American family names explains it as “dweller at the sign of the feather”.

Landscape names of this kind told neighbours where a family's house stood. Related forms include Fedder. The 2010 census count for Feder in the United States was 2,884, good for rank 11,026. It sits among the 25,000 most common last names in the country. 612 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Feder name at birth. Births ran at 39 in 1891–1900 and 53 in 1991–2000.

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