Faver Family History
Faver Name Meaning
Altered form of French Favre ‘blacksmith’ or of its cognate Lefèvre (see Lefevre ). Compare Favor . English: probably in most cases an altered form of Feaver partly because between the 16th and the 18th centuries its pronunciation was sometimes identical with the word favour (see 4 below). English: occasionally perhaps also a nickname from Middle English (Old French) favo(u)r Middle English faver ‘help beauty grace benevolence’. In some cases possibly also Breton: occupational name for a grower of beans from an agent derivative of fav ‘broad bean’. This surname is very rare in Brittany.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022