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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish (Galway) : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fearadhaigh (see Ferry).
  • English : from the Old English personal name Fæger ‘fair’ + dǣge ‘servant’, hence ‘servant of (a man called) Fair’.

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