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The gaffney Surname

gaffney Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Gamhna ‘descendant of Gamhain’, a byname meaning ‘calf’. On occasion the English surname Caulfield was adopted as equivalent.
  2. Possibly an altered spelling of Swiss German Gaf(f)ner, a topographic name for a cottage dweller, from dialect Gafene ‘large basket’, ‘Alpine (dairy) hut’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The gaffney name in History

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Distribution of gaffney Families in the US in 1920
Number of gaffney families
 261-519
 88-260		 1-87
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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