The kefauver Surname
kefauver Name Meaning and History
- Americanized spelling of South German Kiefhaber, probably from Middle High German kifen ‘to gnaw or chew’ + haber ‘oats’ and hence a nickname for a poor person or an oats farmer.
- An alternative etymology has it as a topographic name, from Middle Low German kif ‘feud’ + haber ‘oats’, denoting an oats field that had been the subject of a dispute.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| Iva Keafauver Greenville,Ohio 1910 |
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| George Hager & Magdalena Kefauver, Fayette Co | Bill Brobst, Kefauver/Hager Project | 1 |
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