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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Ó Fearchair ‘descendant of Fearchar’, a Gaelic personal name meaning ‘philanthropist’, ‘man-loving’, or of the personal name itself. Compare Scottish Farquhar.

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