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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Midlands) : possibly a topographical name from Middle English tufte, tuffe ‘clump of trees or bushes’. This is an element of minor place names and field names in various counties.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named, from Old Norse tupt ‘site’, ‘lot’.
  • Possibly an altered spelling of South German Duft, from a topographic name meaning ‘swamp’, ‘moor’.

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