Fairlie Family History
Fairlie Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from any of several places in Scotland so called (see Fairley). Possibly also an Americanized spelling of South German Fährle, Värli, a metonymic occupational name for a hog farmer, from a diminutive of Middle High German varch ‘pig’, ‘piglet’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press