Surname - Faye

Faye

Origin France, Spain, Italy.

Taken from a person who lived by a beech tree.

From the Latin fagea meaning 'beech'.

This is a hereditary surname of Locality Origin.

Locality names were derived from placenames and

describe someone who lived near a physical feature or

from habitations such as a town, village, farmstead or county.

Naming was borne thousands of years ago and at first there were just first names.

Around the 11th century the Normans introduced

the first hereditary surnames taken from their estates in France.

By the 15th century they had spread to England, Ireland,

Scotland, Wales, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal and the rest of the European countries.

They consisted of a store of Baptismal, Locality, and

Occupation names with Nicknames being formed from the

Norman originals and Old Norse terms.

In these early centuries Coats of Arms were borne.

The knights wore heavy armour from head to foot and the

only means of identification for his followers was the

emblem on the shield and on this surcoat.

The coat of arms for this surname is one of the first

granted from the very early centuries.