The farr Surname
farr Name Meaning and History
- English: from Middle English farre ‘bull’, applied as a nickname for a fierce or lusty man or a metonymic occupational name for someone who kept a bull.
- German: nickname from Middle High German varne, var, with the same meaning as 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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