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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : perhaps, as Morlet suggests, a derivative of Hebrew chalfi (Aramaic halphaï) meaning ‘God has replaced (a dead child)’, or from Hebrew chalfon ‘money changer’.
  • French and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : Alternatively, it could be a habitational name for someone from Heilbronn (see Halpern).

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