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Family name origins & meanings
- English and Scottish : topographic name from Old English (ge)fyrhþe ‘woodland’ or ‘scrubland on the edge of a forest’.
- Scottish : habitational name from Firth in Orkney.
- Welsh : topographic name from Welsh ffrith, ffridd ‘barren land’, ‘mountain pasture’ (a borrowing of the Old English word mentioned in 1).