Last name: PLAYFAIR
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PLAYFAIR : This last name is indexed 8,595 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
PLAYFAIR : from Middle English plei-fere (-ifere) ‘companion playmate friend; also paramour’ or its Scots equivalent playfere; less likely from Middle English plei(en) ‘to play’ + fair(e) ‘fairly pleasantly courteously’ for which compare Gover.
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