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Re: My name (FAHRION)
Rosa und Volker Kohlheim, Familiennamen, Mannheim 2000, has:1. Latin translation of the German surname Hering ("herring"), from Lat. "fario" meaning "fish, maybe salmon trout" (unfortunately the word is not in my Latin dictionaries), here obviously with a Greek ending.
2. Alteration of Fabian
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