Fairhall

English

Alternative forms

• Fairall

Etymology

A habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place, from Old English fæġer (“beautiful, pleasant”) + healh (“corner, nook”).

Proper noun

Fairhall (plural Fairhalls)

1. A surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Fairhall is the 10532^nd most common surname in England, belonging to 559 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Fairhall”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 546.