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fahey Name Meaning and History

Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fathaidh or Ó Fathaigh ‘descendant of Fathadh’, a personal name derived from fothadh ‘base’, ‘foundation’. This name is sometimes Anglicized as Green(e) as a result of erroneous association with faithche ‘lawn’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of fahey Families in the US in 1920
Number of fahey families
 144-286
 49-143
 1-48
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