Fekete Family History
Fekete Name Meaning
Hungarian: nickname for a dark-haired or swarthy person from fekete ‘black’. This surname is also found in Romania Slovakia Serbia and Croatia and also among Rusyns. Jewish (from Hungary): adoption of the name in 1 above either as a Hungarian calque of the formerly used German-based surname or because the Hungarian surname (or word) has some sounds in common with the original surname.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022