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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : most probably, as Reaney proposes, a variant of Gofair, a nickname from Middle English go(n) ‘to go’ (Old English gān) + fair ‘lovely’, ‘quiet(ly)’ (see Fair).

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