Farebrother

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)

1. A surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Farebrother is the 16679^th 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 City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 551.