First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
Southern Italian: occupational name from facchino ‘porter’, ‘carrier of goods’, formerly meaning ‘scribe’, ‘clerk’, from Arabic faqīh ‘expert in the law’.
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