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The fay Surname

fay Name Meaning and History

  1. English: nickname for a person believed to have supernatural qualities, from Middle English, Old French faie ‘fairy’ (Late Latin fata ‘fate’, ‘destiny’).
  2. English: nickname for a trustworthy person, from Middle English, Old French fei ‘loyalty’, ‘trust’.
  3. English (of Norman origin) and French: habitational name from any of various places in France named with Old French faie ‘beech’, or a topographic name from someone living by a beech wood. Compare Lafayette.
  4. Irish: variant of Fahey.
  5. Irish: variant of Fee.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of fay Families in the US in 1920
Number of fay families
 484-965
 162-483		 1-161
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