Fain meaning | Last name Fain origin

Family name Fain is the variant form of the Fane. Welsh, 'slender,'—an ancient personal name. The ancestors of the earls of Westmoreland, "wrote their name Vane, and descended," says Collins, "from Howel ap Vane of Monmouthshire, living before the time of William the Conqueror." The Vanes (Duke of Cleveland) are of the same lineage.

Family name Fain is a form of Fane. Slender.

Fain is a form of Fein. Refined.

Lastname Fain is a variant form of Vann. Dweller near the place where grain was threshed.

Fain is a variant of Vane. Wan, pale; same as Fane.

The lastname is a form of Ap. A Welsh prefix, signifying "the son of." It was sometimes written AB and VAP.Andrew Borde, in his Boke of Knowledge, makes a Welshman say:
"I am a gentylman and come of Brutus blood,
My name is ap Ryce, ap Davy, ap Flood.
My kyndred is ap Hoby, ap Jenkin, ap Goffe,
Because I do go barelegged I do cache the coffe."

Sometimes the letter P or B ( in ab) coalesced with the following syllable, and thus Ap Ryhs became Price; Ap Howell, Powell; Ap Robyn, Probyn; Ab Ithell, Bithell; Ab Enyon, Benyon.

Fain is the variant of Phin. A Gaelic personal name. Mac Phinn, or Mac Finn, is still found in the Highlands.

Family name is a variation of Vane. Collins shows that the two peer age families of Vane and Fane are of the same origin. See Fane - Welsh, 'slender,'—an ancient personal name. The ancestors of the earls of Westmoreland, "wrote their name Vane, and descended," says Collins, "from Howel ap Vane of Monmouthshire, living before the time of William the Conqueror." The Vanes (Duke of Cleveland) are of the same lineage

The arms consist of the same tinctures and charges, viz.: Azure, three gauntlets, or, but the gauntlets of the Vanes are for the left hand, while those of the Fanes are dexter or right hand ones.