First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
French: variant of Lefèvre. The -b- occurs in this form of the name by reason of hypercorrection influenced by the Latin word faber ‘craftsman’.