as a Last Name
- 16,515
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Farrar
Meaning & Origins
Northern English: occupational name for a smith or worker in iron, from Middle English and Old French farrour, ferour, from medieval Latin ferrator, an agent derivative of ferrare ‘to shoe horses’, from ferrum ‘iron’, in medieval Latin ‘horseshoe’. Compare Ferrier and Farrow.
| 2,229th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 16,515
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Virgin Island
- has the most people named Farrar per capita
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