Etymology

Fahey

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Today it means: A surname from Irish. Full definition →

Irish Ó Fathaidh
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The story

  1. Irish · derived fromÓ Fathaidh“descendant of Fathadh”
  2. English todayFahey

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Fathaidh (“descendant of Fathadh”), a byname from fothadh (“base, foundation, support”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.