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View Surname: Favager


FAVAGER
SOURCE: Occupation & Location
USAGE: French
Meaning & History
From the old French or Swiss word faverges or favarges meaning a "forge", hence a name for a blacksmith. Alternatively it could indicate one from the area of Faverges or La Favarge near Neuchatel (derived from the same word).


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