Fifer Family History
Fifer Name Meaning
Americanized form of German Pfeiffer or Pfeifer ‘piper whistler’ and a variant of the same Jewish (Ashkenazic) surnames. In North America this surname is also an altered form of various homonymous Slavic adaptations of the German surnames such as Czech Fajfr and Faifr Slovenian Pfajfar and Fajfar. Slovenian: from German Pfeiffer or Pfeifer ‘piper whistler’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022