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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from the nineteenth letter in the Hebrew alphabet.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a merchant or trader, from German Kauf ‘purchase’.
  • Americanized spelling of German Kauf, an occupational name for a trader, Old High German koufo. Compare Low German Koop.

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