Farebrother
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English
Etymology
From Old English fæġer (“fair, beautiful”) + brōþor (“brother”), a nickname given to the brother of a fair person, or else to the better-looking of a pair of brothers. Alternatively, the surname may have been a nickname for a brother-in-law; compare French beau-frère (“brother-in-law”).
Proper noun
Farebrother (plural Farebrothers)
- A surname from Old English.
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Farebrother is the 16679th most common surname in England, belonging to 298 individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Farebrother”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 551.