Frequency: (478)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Southern French and Swiss French: occupational name for a smith or ironworker, Occitan fevre (Latin faber ‘craftsman’). Compare Faber.
GIVEN NAMES: French 6%. Alphonse, Cecile, Chantal, Francoise, Jacques, Julien, Laurent.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
