Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : Blond-haired

Boy name variations

Fairfax
Fairfield
Fayrfax
Fax

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : nickname meaning ‘handsome’, ‘beautiful’, ‘fair’, Middle English fair, fayr, Old English fæger. The word was also occasionally used as a personal name in Middle English, applied to both men and women.
  • Irish : translation of Gaelic fionn ‘fair’, which Woulfe describes as ‘a descriptive epithet that supplanted the real surname’, or a reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac F(h)inn, a variant of Mag Fhinn (see McGinn).

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