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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Greek : status name for an apprentice, from Greek kalfas ‘apprentice’, Turkish kalfa.
  • Czech : from kalfas ‘large pot’, presumably a metonymic occupational name for a potter or a nickname for someone with a pot belly.

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