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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from Old French cof(f)re ‘chest’, ‘box’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for a maker of coffers or chests or, by extension, for a treasurer.
  • Probably an Americanized spelling of German Kaufer or Kauffer (see Kaufer).

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