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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Anglicized form of the Norman surname de Sancto Fide ‘of the Holy Faith’.
  • Scottish : habitational name from a barony in former Kincardineshire called Fiddes (earlier Futhos or Fothes).

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