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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Probably a variant of Irish Duffy.
  • William Diffee, from whom present-day American bearers of this name are descended, was born in about 1710, probably in Ireland, and died in 1790 in Randolph Co., NC.

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