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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
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 62 - Messages: 196
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Henrietta Fairfax andyevans 2
Buckner or Alton Fairfax Courtney 1
Bernard Fairfax, Vaudeville actor SuzieNash34 0
Josh C Fairfax 1882 - 1953, VA Suzette (Fairfax) Distler 2
Winifred Emile Fairfax Liquidbliss87 0
William Fairfax missing in Belle Ellen AL Mine Fire Sept 1897 Not_A_Relative 0
Elizabeth Fairfax/John Van Fizer Carolyn Fizer-Graham 7
Seeking Bertie Fairfax Descendants. tgduncan 0
Calvert / Fairfax connection waddy colvert 6
Fairfax ccrumpler1 0
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