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Fairbairn

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : probably a nickname from Older Scottish fair bairn ‘fair child’. Black, however, suggests that it is perhaps a metathesized variant of Frebern (see Freeborn).

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