Faver Family History

Altered form of French Favre ‘blacksmith’ or of its cognate Lefèvre (see Lefevre). Compare Favor. 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).

English: occasionally perhaps also a nickname from Middle English (Old French) favo(u)r Middle English faver ‘help beauty grace benevolence’. 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.