as a Last Name
- 10,297
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Fahey
Meaning & Origins
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fathaidh or Ó Fathaigh ‘descendant of Fathadh’, a personal name derived from fothadh ‘base’, ‘foundation’. This name is sometimes Anglicized as Green(e) as a result of erroneous association with faithche ‘lawn’.
| 3,488th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 10,297
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Massachusetts
- has the most people named Fahey per capita
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