First name origin & meaning: Old English: Blond-haired First name variations: Fair, Fayrfax, Fax, Fairfax Last name origins & meanings:
- 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 fō ‘hog’
+ feld.
- John Fairfield was an immigrant to Charlestown, MA, in 1635.
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