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Updated February 1, 2024

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Family name origins & meanings

  • English : nickname for a rapid runner, from Middle English swift ‘fleet’.
  • Irish : Anglicization (part translation) of Gaelic Ó Fuada (see Foody).
  • Americanized form of some like-sounding Jewish name.

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