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Fairley Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from one of several places named from
Old English fæger ‘beautiful’ or fearn ‘fern’ +
leah ‘woodland clearing’. Black associates the name in this
spelling particularly with the barony of Fairley or Fairlie near Largs
in Ayrshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Fairley Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Fairley families
 88 - 174  30 - 87 |
 1 - 29  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Fairley families
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90 - 177 31 - 89 |
1 - 30 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Fairley families
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172 - 341 58 - 171 |
1 - 57 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Fairley Family Origin
Fairley Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Fairley
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Fairley Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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