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fairbairn Name Meaning and History

Scottish: probably a nickname from Older Scottish fair bairn ‘fair child’. Black, however, suggests that it is perhaps a metathesized variant of Frebern (see Freeborn).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of fairbairn Families in the US in 1920
Number of fairbairn families
 25-47
 9-24		 1-8
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Albert Fairbairn - Hoquiam bob1se9d31st7nal38vcfahk1tfnbl68 2
FAIRBAIRN Surname DNA Project update LornaHenNZ 1
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Fairburn, Fairbairn family Roger Whybrew 1
Fairbairns of Canada jo72559 45
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Fairbairn from Longtown caladear 6
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Robert FAIRBAIRN b 1821 and John FAIRBAIRN b 1824 AnnRackstraw 5
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