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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : variant of Fabbro, peculiar to the Venice area.
  • Italian : from a derivative of Fava, denoting a bean grower or seller.
  • Italian : perhaps a nickname for someone who wore brightly colored clothes. Compare Calabrian favaru ‘multicolored’.

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