The Firth Surname
Firth Name Meaning and History
- English and Scottish: topographic name from Old English (ge)fyrhþe ‘woodland’ or ‘scrubland on the edge of a forest’.
- Scottish: habitational name from Firth in Orkney.
- Welsh: topographic name from Welsh ffrith, ffridd ‘barren land’, ‘mountain pasture’ (a borrowing of the Old English word mentioned in 1).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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