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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (of Norman origin) : occupational name for a goldsmith, from Anglo-Norman French orfrer, Old French orfevre, Latin aurifaber, from aurum ‘gold’ + faber ‘maker’. Compare French Fèvre (see Lefevre).
  • German : variant of Off.
  • Jewish : unexplained.

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