Fairweather Family History
Fairweather Name Meaning
English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English fair(e) ‘fair beautiful’ + weder wether ‘weather’ for a person with a cheerful disposition. Compare Merryweather . There is a legend that a Scottish family of Highland origin assumed this name in punning allusion to Job 37:22 ‘Fair weather cometh out of the north’. At the present time the surname is most frequent in East Anglia.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022