Last name origins & meanings:
- German and Dutch: humanistic name, a translation into Latin of
any of various names meaning ‘steward’ or ‘agent’, for example
Hoffmann or Meyer.
- Scottish and English: from Latin
factor ‘agent’, literally ‘doer’, from facere ‘to
do’. In 15th-century English, this word developed the specialist sense
of a merchant’s agent in another town; it also came to denote a
steward in charge of an estate, the usual meaning in Scotland.
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