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Surnames, their origin and their meaning

Many surnames are associated with the place/locality of where the family lived and in those cases the location is noted as the meaning.
Many surnames are associated with the occupation of the person given the name.

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Surname		Origin	Meaning
Faal		Gaelic	A rocky place
Faber		Latin	A workman, a smith
Fabian		Latin	Fabius, Faba, a bean
Facet		French	Facette, a little face
Faden		Gaelic	Feadan, a fife, flute
Fagan		Gaelic	A beech-tree
Fagg		Saxon	Fag, variable or many colored
Fairbairn			a fair, handsome bairn or child
Fairfax		Saxon	Fair-hair
Fairholm		Locality	The fair island
Fake		German	A falcon or hawk
Fales		Locality	Fale, a river of Cornwall, England
Falke		German	A falcon or hawk
Falkland		Saxon	From Folck, the common people, and land
Falun		Locality	Fanning
Fane			a temple, a church
Fanning		Locality	son of Fann
Fanshaw			Fane, a temple or church, and shaw, a small wood or grove
Far		Gaelic-Welsh	great
Farber		German	painter
Farman		German	Fahr-mann, master of a ferry-boat
Farnham		Locality	a town in Surrey, England
Farquhar		Gaelic	From Fear, a man, and còir, just, honest, good
Farquharson			son of Farquhar
Farraday		Gaelic	From Farraideach, inquisitive, prying, curious
Farrar		German,	Pfarrer a minister
Fasset		French	Fausette, falsehood, cheat, forgery
Faucet		French	Fausette, falsehood, cheat, forgery
Faukner		German	A catcher of trainer of hawks
Fay		Spanish	Fe, faith
Fearan		Gaelic	An estate
Felch			Welch
Fell		Dutch	fierce, furious, violent
Felton		Locality	A small town in England
Fenshaw		Locality	The shaw or grove in the fen
Fenton		Welsh-British	A well
Ferdinand		German	From Fred, peace, and rand, pure
Fergus		Scottish-Gaelic	A fierce or brave chieftain, from Fear, man, and guth, a voice or word
Ferguson		Scottish	son of Fergus
Ferrer		Locality	Ferrieres, a small town of Gastinois, France
Ferrers		Locality	Ferrieres, a small town of Gastinois, France
Ferris			Ferrers
Ferrol		Gaelic	Famous men
Fielding			Earls of Hapsburgh, in Germany
Fife		Locality	A shire or county of Scotland
Fifield		Locality	Lands held in fee or fief, for which the individual pays service or owes rent
Filey		Locality	a town in England
Filley		Locality	a town in England
Filmore			Fille, Saxon, denoting fullness or plenteousness, and mere, a lake or moist piece of ground
Filmur			Fille, Saxon, denoting fullness or plenteousness, and mere, a lake or moist piece of ground
Filo			Filea, in the Gaelic, is a bard, poet, or historian
Finch			A small singing bird
Findlay		Scottish	Fionnlagh meaning fair warrior
Finney		Gaelic	the genitive of Fionn, fair, sincere, true
Firman			Ferdman, a soldier
Firol		Gaelic	Famous men
Fischer		German	fisherman, fishmonger
Fisk		French	From Fisc, revenue, public funds
Fister		Danish	fisherman
FitzGerald		Norman-French	son of Gerald
FitzGilbert		Norman-French	son of Gilbert
FitzHamon			son of Hamon
FitzHarding			son of Harding
FitzHatton			son of Hatton
FitzHenry			son of Henry
FitzHerbert			son of Herbert
FitzHervey			son of Hervey
FitzHugh			son of Hugh
FitzJohn			son of John
FitzMorice			son of Morris
FitzOrme			son of Orme
FitzParnell			son of Parnell
FitzPatrick			son of Patrick
FitzRandolph			son of Randolph
FitzRoy			son of Roy
FitzSwain			son of Swain
Flack		Dutch	Vlak,flat, low ground
Flaherty		Celtic	A man of chieftain-like exploits
Flanders		Locality	a County or Earldom of the Low Countries, or Netherlands
Flannagan		Gaelic	From flann, ruddy complexion
Fleischer		German	butcher
Fleischman		German	butcher
Fleming		Scottish	Flanders. a County or Earldom of the Low Countries, or Netherlands
Fletcher		French	A maker of arrows, or superintendant of archery
Flint		Locality	a market town of that name, near the sea, in Flintshire, Wales
Flood			Fludd or Floyd. Welsh, brown, gravy, hoary
Flores		Spanish-Portuguese	Floro, meaning flower
Floyd		Welsh	brown, gravy, hoary
Flynn		Irish	descendant of Flann
Folger			Fougeres, a town of France
Foljambe			Full James, Fool James
Follet		French	Frolicksome, merry, gay
Folliot		French	Frolicksome, merry, gay
Fonda		Spanish	bottom, foundation, the source or beginning
Foote		Locality	A place at the bottom of a hill or mountain, the base
Forbes		Scottish	Lands free from military service
Forbisher			A polisher or armor or weapons
Fordham		Locality	a town in England
Forrester			A woodman
Forster			A woodman
Forsythe		Gaelic	From Fear, a man, and Syth, upright, honest, stiff
Fortescue			Strong shield
Fosdyke		Locality	The name of a canal, cut by the order of Henry VIII., from the great marsh near Lincoln, England, to the Trent. Fosse-dyke
Fosgate			From fisse, a ditch, moat, or trench, and gate
Foss		Cornish-British	The entrenchment, moat, or ditch
Foster			Forrester
Fotherby		Locality	The town of provisions, food and fodder
Fothergill		Locality	Fother and gill, a brook
Fotheringham		Locality	The house or town supplying food for man and beast
Foulis		Normandy	Feuilles
Fountain			springs or fountains
Fournier		French	baker cooking dough in the fourneau ‘oven’
Fowler			A sportsman who persues wild fowl
Fox			the cunning animal
Frame		Gaelic	Freumk or Freamk, a root, stem, stock, lineage
Francis		Saxon	Frank, free
Frank			A native of France
Frankland		Saxon	the land of the Franks
Franklin			superior freeholder
Fraser		Scottish	Fraischeur, French, frshness, coolness, bloom
Frederick		German	Rich peace, or peaceable reign
Freeman			One who enjoys liberty
Freer			French, Frere, a friar, a monk, a brother
Freiot		Dutch	Fraaiheid, signifies prettiness, neatness
Fremont		Locality	Framont, a place in France, near Lorraine
French			belonging to France
Frery			Frederick
Friar		French	a brother, a member of a religious order
Frisby		Danish	The new, or fresh town
Friskin		Gaelic	From Fear, and skein, a sword
Frobisher			A polisher or armor or weapons
Frost		Welsh	Ffrost, a brag
Frothingham		Locality	A house or village situated near a strait or arm of the sea
Fry		Cornish-British	A hill, a town or house on the most prominent part of a hill or eminence
Fu		Chinese	descendants of Fu Yue
Fuchs		German	a fox or clever, cunning person
Fulham		Locality	A village on the Thames, England
Fulke		Dutch	Valk, a hawk
Fulkins			son of Fulke
Fuller			One who fulls cloth; a clothier
Fullerton		Locality	The town where the cloth is dressed
Fulsom		Locality	Foulsham, a town in England
Furbusher			A polisher or armor or weapons

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