Farraway

English

Etymology

Habitational surname from the village of Farway, in Devon, from Old English fær (“journey; passage”) + weġ (“way, path”).

Proper noun

Farraway (plural Farraways)

1. A surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Farraway is the 54689^th most common surname in England, belonging to 48 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Farraway”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 553.