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The kofoed Surname

kofoed Name Meaning and History

  1. Altered spelling of Dutch Koefoed or Koevoet, literally ‘cow’s foot’, hence a nickname for someone with a club foot or other deformity of the foot, or a habitational name for someone living at a house distinguished by the sign of a cow’s foot (presumably a butcher’s shop). The term also denotes a crowbar (because it is cleft like a cow’s hoof), and the name may also have arisen as a metonymic occupational name for a maker or user of such tools.
  2. Danish: nickname with the same meaning as 1, from ko ‘cow’ + fod ‘foot’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of kofoed Families in the US in 1920
Number of kofoed families
 5-8
 2-4		 1
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Kofod in New York sasori00 0
Re : Bornholm Kofoed jahansen 2
Re : looking for Kofoed''s Bonnie Stewart 27
Re :Kofoed patbrownkofoed 2
Re :Karl KOFOED- 1881-1932 Jim Ward 0
Re :Hans Anker Kofoed kof98001 3
Re :Morten Kofoed Hamish Stevens 0
Re :Isabell (Harris) Kofoed patbrown198 0
Re :Obit. KOFOED, RALPH K. KAYROM 0
Re :Gifting Erin with Stories from Kofford/Koefoed/Kofoed Women Brenda 6
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