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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : habitational name from any of several places in Scotland so called (see Fairley).
  • Possibly also an Americanized spelling of South German Fährle, Värli, a metonymic occupational name for a hog farmer, from a diminutive of Middle High German varch ‘pig’, ‘piglet’.

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