Släkthistoria för Faber
Faber Vad efternamn betyder
German Dutch French (Alsace and Lorraine) and Danish; Slovak and Czech (mainly Fáber): occupational name from Latin faber ‘blacksmith’. At the time of the Reformation it was much used as a humanistic name a translation into Latin of vernacular surnames such as German Schmidt and Dutch Smit. Compare Fabri and Fauber.
Källa: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
