Farman Family History
Farman Name Meaning
English: from an Old Norse personal name Farmathr denoting a seafarer or traveling merchant. English: occupational name for a peddler or itinerant merchant Middle English far(e)man from an Old Norse word meaning ‘traveling man’ (see 1 above). English: from the Middle English personal name Farman (Old Norse Farmann Farman derived from Farmathr ‘merchant’ perhaps supported by the ancient Germanic cognate Faraman which may have been used by the Normans in England). This surname may have become confused with Fairman . Muslim: from a Persian personal name based on farmān ‘command order decree’. It is also found in compound names such as Farmānullāh ‘order of God’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022