Family name origins & meanings
- English and French : from an Old Norse personal name, Farmaðr, denoting a seafarer or traveling merchant.
- English : occupational name for a peddler or itinerant merchant, Middle English far(e)man, from an Old Norse word meaning ‘traveling man’ (see 1).
- Muslim : from the Arabic personal name based on faraman ‘command’, ‘order’, ‘decree’. It is also found in compound names such as Faraman-ullah ‘order of Allah’.