Updated June 9, 2019

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Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : Blond-haired

Boy name variations

Fairfield

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Fair

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Fayrfax

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Family name origins & meanings

  • 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.
  • 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.