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Family name origins & meanings

English : variant of Free.
Irish : Anglicized (‘translated’) form of Gaelic Ó Saoraidhe (see Seery).
In New England, an English equivalent of French Foissy (see Foisy).
Translation of German Freimann (see Freiman).

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