Fairbrass

English

Etymology

Perhaps a nickname for a soldier or a tough man, from Old French fer (“iron; fierce, ferocious”) + brace (“arm”).

Proper noun

Fairbrass (plural Fairbrasses)

1. A surname from Old French.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Fairbrass is the 8846^th most common surname in England, belonging to 704 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Fairbrass”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 546.