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    The surname Faver

    A French nickname surname, carried by 624 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex F160

    Faver: #35,945 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Faver #35,945, 624 people Faver: #35,945 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Faver #35,945, 624 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Faver is more common than 77.8% of them.

    Origin

    French origin

    * As a French surname, variant of Favre or Lefèvre. Compare Favor. * As an English surname, variant of Feaver. * Also as an English surname, sometimes a nickname based on the noun favor. * Also as an English surname of Breton origin, from the noun fav (“broad bean”), from Proto-Brythonic *fav, from Latin faba (“bean”).

    Faver is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

    One of 791 French surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 624 people named Faver in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 494,785 Americans. That is down 0.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 628.

    #35,945
    rank among US surnames
    624
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -0.6%
    change since 2000 (was #34,150)

    Who is named Faver

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    93% of people named Faver identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.9% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.6%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Faver

    Faver has the Soundex code F160, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F160.

    Other French surnames

    All 791 French surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Faver come from?
    * As a French surname, variant of Favre or Lefèvre. Compare Favor. * As an English surname, variant of Feaver. * Also as an English surname, sometimes a nickname based on the noun favor. * Also as an English surname of Breton origin, from the noun fav (“broad bean”), from Proto-Brythonic *fav,…
    How common is the surname Faver?
    624 people in the United States had the surname Faver in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 494,785 Americans. It ranked 35,945th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Faver?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Faver identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Faver?
    Faver is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
    Is the surname Faver getting more or less common?
    Less common. 628 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 624 in 2010, down 0.6%.