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Gender Masculine
Usage Germanic, Medieval Scandinavian
Meaning & History
Germanic name derived from the elements fara "journey" (possibly via Gothic faran "to travel"; alternatively it could be from Langobardic fara "family, line, kind") and wulf "wolf" (Gothic vulfs). This is also the Old Swedish equivalent, from the Old Norse cognate Farulfr (in which case "the first element Far- is from the present stem of the Old West Norse verb fara "to go, to travel", and is related to Old Icelandic far "ship, passage"").