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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : habitational name from any of various places in France, deriving their names mostly from Old French fain ‘swamp’, but Latin fanum ‘temple’ is also a source in some cases.
  • English : variant spelling of Fayne.

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