Last name: FAIRBAIRN

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FAIRBAIRN : This last name is indexed 27,690 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

FAIRBAIRN : Scottish: nickname from Older Scots fair bairn ‘fair child’ (from Middle English fair ‘fair beautiful; light of complexion or color of hair or eyes’ + barn ‘child’). This surname may have become confused with Fairburn and Freeborn.

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