Last Name FAIRFAX

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Meaning Nickname: With the fair fax, i.e. the fair hair.
Fair hair � from faex, hair. The family were seated at Torcester in Northumberland, before the Conquest, but afterwards moved to Yorkshire; and from thence some branches settled in Scotland�Richard Fairfax was living at Askam in Yorkshire in 1205. Motto: "Fare Fac."
Fair-hair; 'Faex,' hair.
Origin English, Scottish, Anglo-Saxon, Irish, Hungarian

Rank 17,970 (2000 US census) 13,792 (1990 US census)
Count 1,433 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 52.2%, or 748 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 43.27%, or 620 total occurrences, as black,
  • undisclosed % as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • undisclosed % as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.81%, or 26 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 2.16%, or 31 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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