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The faber Surname

faber Name Meaning and History

  1. Occupational name for a smith or ironworker, from Latin faber ‘craftsman’. This was in use as a surname in England, Scotland, and elsewhere in the Middle Ages and is also found as a personal name. At the time of the Reformation, it was much used as a humanistic name, a translation into Latin of vernacular surnames such as German Schmidt and Dutch Smit.
  2. Secondary surname in French Canada for Lefebvre. The name Fabert appears in Kaskaskia, IL, in 1725.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of faber Families in the US in 1920
Number of faber families
 144-285
 49-143		 1-48
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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