Given name & surname
Fairley
“from the far meadow”
Fairley is a variant of Fairly. One English interpretation is “from the far meadow.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Fairley is a variant of Fairly. One English interpretation is “from the far meadow.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Fairley is a variant of Fairly. An origin associated with Fairly is English.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1926. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Fairley through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 122
- 122 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1944
- 16 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1965. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 16 in 1944. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 163 as a first name in 2020; 6,324 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Fairley’s family of names
Fairley has a related form in Fairly.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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