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Fain Name Meaning
French: habitational name from any of various places in France,
deriving their names mostly from Old French fain ‘swamp’, but
Latin fanum ‘temple’ is also a source in some
cases.English: variant spelling of Fayne.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Fain Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Fain families
 56 - 110  19 - 55 |
 1 - 18  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Fain families
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11 - 19 4 - 10 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Fain families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Fain census records
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Fain Family Origin
Fain Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Fain
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Fain Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Fain census records
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