Last name: FAIRFAX
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FAIRFAX : This last name is indexed 66,423 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
FAIRFAX : English: nickname for someone with beautiful long hair from Middle English fair fax ‘beautiful tresses’. This was a common descriptive phrase in Middle English: the alliterative poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight refers to ‘fair fanning fax’ encircling the shoulders of the doughty warrior.
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