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kaufman Name Meaning and History

  1. Respelling of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Kaufmann.
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the personal name Kaufman, Yiddish koyfman, meaning ‘merchant’.

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

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Distribution of kaufman Families in the US in 1920
Number of kaufman families
 770-1538
 257-769		 1-256
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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