Last name: FRIDAY

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FRIDAY : This last name is indexed 101,698 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

FRIDAY : 1: Americanized form (translation into English) of German or Jewish (Ashkenazic) Freitag.2: English: nickname from Middle English fridai ‘Friday’ perhaps for one born on a Friday or who paid rent or performed some regular service on a Friday. Compare Mondy. If the 17th-century phrases Friday face ‘gloomy expression’ and Friday food Friday feast ‘fast-day meal’ go back to the Middle Ages this might be a nickname for a solemn or gloomy person.

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