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Fairfax

in the US

There are 1,210 people with the last name "Fairfax" in the United States.

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Fairfax 18,615
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  5. is 18,615th most common Fairfax
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Most Common First Names for Fairfax

David, Robert, William, John, James, Thomas, George, Lisa, Barbara, Patricia

Meaning & History

English: nickname for someone with beautiful long hair, from Middle English fair feax ‘beautiful tresses’. This was a common descriptive phrase in Middle English; the alliterative poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight refers to ‘fair fanning fax’ encircling the shoulders of the doughty warrior.

FOREBEARS Thomas Fairfax (1693–1781), an army officer from Leeds Castle, Kent, England, first came to VA in 1735 and settled on maternal estates there as a proprietor in 1747.

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