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farrar Name Meaning and History

Northern English: occupational name for a smith or worker in iron, from Middle English and Old French farrour, ferour, from medieval Latin ferrator, an agent derivative of ferrare ‘to shoe horses’, from ferrum ‘iron’, in medieval Latin ‘horseshoe’. Compare Ferrier and Farrow.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of farrar Families in the US in 1920
Number of farrar families
 88-173
 30-87		 1-29
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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