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roof Name Meaning and History

  1. English: variant of Rolfe.
  2. German: from Ruffo, a short form of a personal name formed with hrod ‘renown’, ‘victory’.
  3. Probably an Americanized spelling of German Ruf(f).

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

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Distribution of roof Families in the US in 1920
Number of roof families
 70-138
 24-69		 1-23
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Thomas Jasper Roof mixmuffin1 4
PA Roofs Eirc Roof 14
Martin Roof and Alice LaRue Hardin Co., KY evedillingham 0
KY Roof Query Robert Bumgardner 2
Bobby Roof lysa551 0
Gertrude Roof , Born: Feb 1880 in [city], [county], Pennsylvania, Irishlovey_1 0
Jacob ROOF Jane Reynolds 15
Some ROOF's and BOWLES Robert Bumgardner 0
John and Nancy Roof Nancy Machuga 0
Roof / hunter wvdodson 0
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