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duff Name Meaning and History

Scottish and Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duibh (‘descendant of Dubh’), Mac Giolla Duibh (‘son of the servant of Dubh’), or a short form of Duffin 2 (County Wexford), MacElduff (County Tyrone; see Kilduff), Mac Duibh, and Duffy, all of which are formed from personal names containing the element dubh ‘dark’, ‘black’ (widely used as a nickname or byname for a dark-haired man or man of dark temperament and as an element of personal names).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of duff Families in the US in 1920
Number of duff families
 162-321
 55-161		 1-54
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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