Fay Family History
Fay Name Meaning
English: nickname for a person believed to have supernatural
qualities, from Middle English, Old French faie ‘fairy’ (Late
Latin fata ‘fate’, ‘destiny’).English: nickname for a
trustworthy person, from Middle English, Old French fei
‘loyalty’, ‘trust’.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.Irish: variant
of Fahey.Irish: variant of Fee.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Fay Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Fay families
 484 - 965  162 - 483 |
 1 - 161  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Fay families
|
214 - 426 72 - 213 |
1 - 71 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Fay families
|
44 - 86 15 - 43 |
1 - 14 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Fay Family Origin
Fay Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Fay
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Fay Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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