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fairfax Name Meaning and History

English: nickname for someone with beautiful long hair, from Middle English fair feax ‘beautiful tresses’. This was a common descriptive phrase in Middle English; the alliterative poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight refers to ‘fair fanning fax’ encircling the shoulders of the doughty warrior.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of fairfax Families in the US in 1920
Number of fairfax families
 26-50
 9-25
 1-8
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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