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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English and Scottish : of uncertain origin; perhaps a topographic name from Middle English fern ‘fern’ + heye ‘enclosure’, or possibly a habitational name from a minor place so named. Compare Forney, Furney.
  • Variant of German Farner.

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