The factor Surname
factor Name Meaning and History
- German and Dutch: humanistic name, a translation into Latin of any of various names meaning ‘steward’ or ‘agent’, for example Hoffmann or Meyer.
- Scottish and English: from Latin factor ‘agent’, literally ‘doer’, from facere ‘to do’. In 15th-century English, this word developed the specialist sense of a merchant’s agent in another town; it also came to denote a steward in charge of an estate, the usual meaning in Scotland.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| FACTOR, POMPEY; Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient - Indian Wars |
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| Elizabeth Factor my Grandmother | Catherine Schumacher | 1 |
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