Fee Family History
Fee Name Meaning
Irish: shortened form of O'Fee Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fiaich ‘descendant of Fiach’ a byname meaning ‘raven’. This name has sometimes been mistranslated as Hunt as a result of confusion with fiach the modern spelling of fiadhach ‘hunt’. English: from Middle English fe(e) ‘fee’ (Anglo-Norman French fee Latin feodum) for someone who held a fee which in the medieval period was an estate held in heritable or perpetual tenure to a feudal superior or the Crown.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022