Phair Coat of Arms and Surname Origin

Heraldry is personal: arms associated with the Fair surname were borne by specific families, and sharing the name does not mean sharing the blazon.

The meaning behind Phair

Not every Phair is related, but the name itself grew out of Fair. The family name meaning is “handsome, fair”, the same as for Fair.

Phair writes “ph” in place of the “f” found in Fair, a common scribal difference. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Related forms: Fairs and Fayre. The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Phair with 1,213 bearers, at rank 21,524. It sits within the 25,000 most common last names in the country.

Want more than a summary? See the Phair family name pack.