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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Löffler) and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a maker or seller of spoons, from an agent derivative of Middle High German leffel, löffel ‘spoon’. In the Middle Ages spoons were normally carved from wood, or more rarely from bone or horn.

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