Last name origins & meanings:
- English: occupational name for the servant of someone named
Fair, or a nickname meaning ‘handsome man’.
- Jewish
(Ashkenazic): Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish
surnames, notably Feuerman (see Feuer).
- Probably an Americanized spelling of German Fährmann, a
variant of Fehrmann.
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