Feenstra Family History
Feenstra Name Meaning
West Frisian and Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived in a boggy area from Frisian fean Dutch veen ‘peat bog’ + the suffix -stra from Old Frisian sittera ‘inhabitant of’; or a habitational name for someone from any of several places named with the element veen. Sometimes also applied as a nickname to a peat worker. Compare Veenstra .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022