Origin
Duecker : North German (Dücker):: 1: nickname from an agent noun from Low German duken ‘to duck or dive’ (see Dueck 1).2: nickname from a Westphalian euphemism for the devil (see Teufel).
Fierke : North German: nickname of uncertain origin a byname for the Devil in Pomerania Holstein Hamburg and Bremen.
Fieser : German:: 1: nickname for an unpleasant or repulsive person from an agent noun based on Middle Low German vies ‘disgusting’ Middle High German viez ‘violent devil of a man’.2: habitational name for someone from Viesen near Jerichow Brandenburg.3: short form of the personal name Vincens see Vincent.
Foe : 1: Altered form of an unidentified German surname.2: English: nickname from Middle English fo ‘hostile’ (Old English fā) or ‘enemy’ (Old English gefā) in the latter sense perhaps given to someone who played the Devil in a folk play or pageant.3: English: variant of Fow from Middle English fou ‘spotted variegated multicolored streaked’ (Old English fāh) perhaps in reference to skin or hair or to clothing. The word was also used in Middle English to denote a kind of parti-colored fur.4: Possibly also an altered form of French Faux.5: Chinese: variant of Foo.
Fow : 1: from Middle English fogh fou fow ‘spotted variegated multicoloured streaked’ (Old English fāh) perhaps in reference to skin or hair or to clothing. The word was also used in Middle English to denote a kind of parti-coloured fur. Some post-medieval bearers cited below may alternatively belong at (2). 2: from Middle English fo foo ‘hostile’ (Old English fā) or ‘enemy’ (Old English gefā) in the latter sense perhaps given to someone who played the Devil in a folk play or pageant.
Hellriegel : German: nickname from Middle High German helleriegel ‘bolt to lock hell’ also meaning ‘the Devil’ and ‘devil of a man’. Among other things this denoted someone who played the devil in a Shrovetide play.
Liberato : Spanish Italian and Portuguese: from the personal name Liberato from Latin Liberatus from liberatus ‘freed man’ (i.e. from slavery or in a Christian context from sin or the devil).
Puckle : 1: from Middle English poukel puchel ‘goblin devil’ (Old English pūcel from pūca + the diminutive suffix -el). Compare Pook. Some examples may belong under (2). 2: from Old English pūca ‘goblin devil elf’ + holh ‘hole hollow’ halh ‘nook’ or hyll ‘hill’ for someone who lived by a local feature so named such as Pookhill in Alciston (Sussex) Puckle Hill in Shorne (Kent) or Putshole in Hartland (Devon).
Putz : 1: South German (Austria Bavaria): topographic name for someone who lived by a well or a small pond from Central German putze Middle Low German putte (from Latin puteus) ‘pool’.2: South German (Rhineland; Pütz): from pütz ‘well pool’ (see 1 above) or a habitational name from a place so named in Luxembourg.3: Austrian German: from a pet form of the personal name Burkhard (see Burkhart).4: South German: nickname from a byname for the devil. Compare Butz.5: Germanized form of Slovenian Puc in part a cognate of one or more names above.
Roh : 1: German: nickname for a crude person from Middle Low German rō ‘raw rough’. This is one of the German surnames that became established in Russia in the 19th century.2: Czech: nickname from roh ‘horn’ applied to a person who looked like a devil (black hair dark skin) or behaved like it. Alternatively a topographic name for someone living in a house on the corner of a street or place based on the same word meaning also ‘corner edge’.3: Czech: from the personal name Roch 1 Latin Rochus.4: Korean: variant of Ro itself a variant of No 1.
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Source : DAFN2 : Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, ©2022 by Patrick Hanks and Oxford University Press
FANBI : The Oxford Dictionary if Family Names in Britain and Ireland, ©2016, University of the West of England
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