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Surname Etymology and Meaning of FAIRBAIRN

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The same as Fairchild--a fair, handsome bairn or child.

Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857).

Scottish: probably a nickname from Older Scottish fair bairn ‘fair child’. Black, however, suggests that it is perhaps a metathesized variant of Frebern (see Freeborn).

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)