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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : probably a variant of Gifford.
  • Probably a respelling of German Gaffert, a habitational name from Gaffert near Köslin, Brandenburg, or from a personal name formed with Middle High German gate ‘fellow’, ‘companion’.

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