What is the nationality of the surname Farr?

Answer 1

It's from south-west France originally, where it's spelt Farre or Ferre, and became Farr in English. One assumes it travelled to England during the days of the Angevin empire, when the Plantagenets ruled from Northumbria down to the Pyrenees and a lot of tradesmen, craftsman and soldiers moved between the various provinces with their jobs or with war.

It is not a Scottish or Irish surname, as is sometimes claimed, nor anglo-saxon in origin.

Early variants in the spelling (where it is Farre more often than not) indicate the true source.