Fingerhut Family History
Fingerhut Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a tailor from Middle High German vingerhuot Yiddish fingerhut ‘thimble’ (literally ‘finger hat’). The word also means ‘foxglove’ but this sense is unlikely to be relevant to the surname.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022