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Updated June 9, 2019

Girl name origins & meanings

  • Old French : Fairy

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Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Fay.
  • Southern French : topographic name for someone who lived by a beech tree or beech wood.
  • German : nickname for a vagrant, from Middle High German vēhe ‘enmity’, ‘strife’.
  • German : from a popular medieval pet form of the female personal name Sophie, honored as a martyr and saint.
  • Danish : unexplained.

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