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First name origin & meaning:

Old English: Blond-haired

First name variations: Fair, Fayrfax, Fax, Fairfax

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. English: habitational name from any of various places, for example Fairfield in Derbyshire or Kent, both named from Old English as fæger ‘beautiful’ + feld ‘open country’, or Fairfield in Worcestershire, which is named with Old English ‘hog’ + feld.
  2. John Fairfield was an immigrant to Charlestown, MA, in 1635.