Surname · also Old French
Fowers
“hearth-keeper”
Fowers is a surname from Old French, ultimately from Latin.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Fowers goes back to Latin focārius, meaning “hearth-keeper.”
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Where it comes from
Fowers comes from Old French, and ultimately from Latin.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old French fouuer, from Latin focārius (“hearth-keeper”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Fowers’s family of names
In English usage, Fowers as a surname shares a linguistic root with the French form FOYER.
The ring: across languages.
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Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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