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firth Name Meaning and History

  1. English and Scottish: topographic name from Old English (ge)fyrhþe ‘woodland’ or ‘scrubland on the edge of a forest’.
  2. Scottish: habitational name from Firth in Orkney.
  3. Welsh: topographic name from Welsh ffrith, ffridd ‘barren land’, ‘mountain pasture’ (a borrowing of the Old English word mentioned in 1).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The firth name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the firth family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of firth Families in the US in 1920
Number of firth families
 49-96
 17-48		 1-16
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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