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Fair Name Meaning

English: nickname meaning ‘handsome’, ‘beautiful’, ‘fair’, Middle English fair, fayr, Old English fæger. The word was also occasionally used as a personal name in Middle English, applied to both men and women. Irish: translation of Gaelic fionn ‘fair’, which Woulfe describes as ‘a descriptive epithet that supplanted the real surname’, or a reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac F(h)inn, a variant of Mag Fhinn (see McGinn).

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press


Similar surnames: Farr, Fail, Hain, Cain, Hair, Fait, Faix, Mair, Fain, Nair

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Fair Family Origin

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Fair Family Occupations

What did your Fair ancestors do for a living?

Census records can tell you a lot of little known facts about your Fair ancestors, such as occupation. Occupation can tell you about your ancestor's social and economic status.

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  • Carter

    2%

  • Farmer

    2%

  • Slater

    2%

  • Labourer

    2%

In 1881, a less common occupation for the Fair family was Labourer. The most common Fair occupation in the UK was Carter. 2% of Fair's were Carters. Carter, Farmer and Slater were the top 3 reported jobs worked by Fair.

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Fair Historical Records

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Fair Life Expectancy

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United States

Between 1941 and 2004, Fair life expectancy was at its lowest point in 1945, and highest in 1998. The average life expectancy for Fair in 1941 was 32, and 71 in 2004.

Source: Social Security Death Index (SSDI) for Fair

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