English: from Middle English dove, Old English
dufe ‘dove’ (or perhaps occasionally from the Old Norse
cognate dúfa), applied as a nickname for a mild and gentle
person or as a metonymic occupational name for a keeper of doves. The
Old English word was used as a personal name for either sex in the
early Middle English period, and the surname at least in part derives
from this use.Scottish: translation of Mac
Calmáin (see Coleman 1).Scottish: variant of
Duff.North German: nickname for a deaf or dull man, Middle
Low German dof.
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