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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish : habitational name from a place in the province of Logroño, so called from a North Castilian form of Spanish faro ‘beacon’.
  • French (Normandy) : metonymic occupational name for a peddler, from an Old French cry used to hail someone or to attract attention.

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