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faison Name Meaning and History

Probably an Americanized form of English, Dutch, or French Faisant ‘pheasant’, either a metonymic occupational name for a breeder of pheasants or a nickname for someone who was thought to resemble the bird. Faisant is found as a surname of Old French origin in Middle English, but is not found in present-day Britain.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of faison Families in the US in 1920
Number of faison families
 154-305
 52-153		 1-51
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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