Last name: FAHEY
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FAHEY : This last name is indexed 31,370 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
FAHEY : Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fathaidh or Ó Fathaigh ‘descendant of Fathadh’ a personal name derived from fothadh ‘base foundation’. This name is sometimes Anglicized as Green(e) as a result of erroneous association with faithche ‘lawn’.
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