Fein meaning | Last name Fein origin

Fein is a form of Vane. Collins shows that the two peer age families of Vane and Fane are of the same origin. See Fane - Welsh, 'slender,'—an ancient personal name. The ancestors of the earls of Westmoreland, "wrote their name Vane, and descended," says Collins, "from Howel ap Vane of Monmouthshire, living before the time of William the Conqueror." The Vanes (Duke of Cleveland) are of the same lineage

The arms consist of the same tinctures and charges, viz.: Azure, three gauntlets, or, but the gauntlets of the Vanes are for the left hand, while those of the Fanes are dexter or right hand ones.

Is the variation of the Vane. Wan, pale; same as Fane.

The variant form of Vann. Dweller near the place where grain was threshed.

Refined.

Form of Fane. Slender.

Fein is a form of Ap. A Welsh prefix, signifying "the son of." It was sometimes written AB and VAP.Andrew Borde, in his Boke of Knowledge, makes a Welshman say:
"I am a gentylman and come of Brutus blood,
My name is ap Ryce, ap Davy, ap Flood.
My kyndred is ap Hoby, ap Jenkin, ap Goffe,
Because I do go barelegged I do cache the coffe."

Sometimes the letter P or B ( in ab) coalesced with the following syllable, and thus Ap Ryhs became Price; Ap Howell, Powell; Ap Robyn, Probyn; Ab Ithell, Bithell; Ab Enyon, Benyon.

Fein is a variation of Fane. Welsh, 'slender,'—an ancient personal name. The ancestors of the earls of Westmoreland, "wrote their name Vane, and descended," says Collins, "from Howel ap Vane of Monmouthshire, living before the time of William the Conqueror." The Vanes (Duke of Cleveland) are of the same lineage.

Fein is the variant of the Phin. A Gaelic personal name. Mac Phinn, or Mac Finn, is still found in the Highlands.