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facer Name Meaning and History

  1. English (chiefly Northamptonshire): probably from the obsolete slang term facer, denoting a braggart or bully. The earliest citation for this term in OED is c. 1515.
  2. Americanized spelling of German Feeser.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The facer name in History

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Distribution of facer Families in the US in 1920
Number of facer families
 11-20
 4-10		 1-3
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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