Fidel Family History
Fidel Name Meaning
Catalan Galician Spanish Slovenian Hungarian and Haitian: from the personal name Fidel from Latin fidelis ‘of the faith’ (from fides ‘faith’) a name adopted among early Christians. This surname is also found in the Philippines. Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a fiddler from Yiddish fidl ‘fiddle’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022