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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a variant of the personal name Rüef, Ruoff, reduced forms of Rudolf, or from a short form of the Germanic personal name Ricfrid, composed of rīc ‘power(ful)’, ‘rich’ + frid ‘peace’.

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