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Boy/Male
British, English
From the Fern Field
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English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : variant of Farley.
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English
English : habitational name from any of various places named Farleigh, of which there are examples in Hampshire, Kent, Somerset, Surrey, and Wiltshire, from Old English as fearn ‘fern’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. See also Farley, Fairley, Fairlie.
Female
English
English name derived from the vocabulary word fern, from Old English fearn, FERN means "fern," a type of leafy plant. The name was first used in the 19th century when flower, plant or other "dainty" names were popular.
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English
English : habitational name from a place in Shropshire, so named from Old English fearn ‘fern’ + hlÄw ‘hill’, ‘tumulus’.
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English
English : habitational name from Redfern near Rochdale, Greater Manchester, so called from Old English rēad ‘red’ + fearn ‘fern’, ‘bracken’.
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English
English : of uncertain origin. It is probably a habitational name; there is a Farnsley Farm in Derbyshire, or it could perhaps be from any of three places in Yorkshire named Farnley, named in Old English with fearn ‘fern’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. The surname seems to have died out in England.
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English
English : habitational name from any of the many places, such as Farnell (Kent, Wiltshire), Farnhill (West Yorkshire), and Fernhill (Cheshire), named from Old English fearn ‘fern’ + hyll ‘hill’. In a few cases it may also derive from Farnell in Angus, Scotland, although the surname is not now common in Scotland.
Boy/Male
British, English
From the Fern Meadow
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of various places named Farley, of which there are examples in Berkshire, Derbyshire, Hampshire, Kent, Somerset, and Staffordshire, from Old English as fearn ‘fern’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. See also Farleigh, Fairley, Fairlie.Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fearghaile (see Farrelly).
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English
English : habitational name from a place called Farrington. There is one in Somerset, but the surname is associated mainly with Farington, Lancashire. Both are named from Old English fearn ‘fern’ + tūn ‘settlement’. The surname probably reached America also via Ireland, where it is recorded as early as the 14th century.
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English
English : variant spelling of Fern 1.
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English
English : habitational name from either of two places, one formerly in Lancashire, now in Greater Manchester; the other in Cheshire, both so named from Old English as fearn ‘fern’ + worð ‘enclosure’.
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English
English : habitational name from any of various places so called. Most, including those in Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Essex, Suffolk, Surrey, and West Yorkshire, are named from Old English fearn ‘fern’ + hÄm ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘enclosure hemmed in by water’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived in a place where there was an abundance of ferns, from Old English fearn ‘fern’ (sometimes used as a collective noun).
Boy/Male
British, English
From the Fern Slope
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n.
A stout woolen cloth of great thickness; dreadnaught; also, a warm garment.
n.
Hence: A garment made of very thick cloth, that can defend against storm and cold; also, the cloth itself; fearnaught.
n.
A fearless person.