Faura: Surname History and Family Crest

Faura shows up clearly in national surname statistics.

• Spanish register data show 1,512 residents carrying Faura as first surname, and 1,379 as second surname. Each Spaniard has two surnames, so the same name is counted once as first and once as second surname. From 1891 to 2000, 143 births in France were registered under Faura.
• Standard surname dictionaries do not settle the origin of Faura, so we research it family by family rather than guess.
• Similar-sounding surnames on Herald Lab: Faure and Faria.
• Local archives often hold baptisms and marriages that never reached online indexes.

Family crest and blazon

Sharing the Faura name is not the same as sharing a crest; arms were granted to individual families. Get the complete Faura report, with a museum-style coat of arms.