German (Löffler) and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational
name for a maker or seller of spoons, from an agent derivative of
Middle High German leffel, löffel ‘spoon’. In the
Middle Ages spoons were normally carved from wood, or more rarely from
bone or horn.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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