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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Somerset and Avon) : topographic name for someone living in or by a furze-covered enclosure, from Old English fyrs ‘furze’ + hæg ‘enclosure’.
  • Americanized spelling of French Fortier.

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