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Updated June 9, 2019

How Popular Is The Name Reef

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : of disputed origin; either a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of rope, from Middle Low German reep ‘rope’, or alternatively, a nickname for a feeble or very thin person, from Middle Low German ref, rif ‘body’, ‘skeleton’.

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