Origin and popularity of the name FAVER

Origin

Faver : 1: Altered form of French Favre ‘blacksmith’ or of its cognate Lefèvre (see Lefevre). Compare Favor.2: English: probably in most cases an altered form of Feaver partly because between the 16th and the 18th centuries its pronunciation was sometimes identical with the word favour (see 4 below).3: English: occasionally perhaps also a nickname from Middle English (Old French) favo(u)r Middle English faver ‘help beauty grace benevolence’.4: In some cases possibly also Breton: occupational name for a grower of beans from an agent derivative of fav ‘broad bean’. This surname is very rare in Brittany.

Feaver : 1: English: occupational name from Old French fevere fevre faver ‘smith’ (from Latin faber). It was often used by medieval clerks to render Middle English Smith but it seems also to have been borrowed into Middle English and given rise to an English surname.2: English (Kent): Anglicized form of French Favre ‘blacksmith’.

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