habitational name from any of various places named Elbe
or from the river name.from a short form of a Germanic personal
name beginning Alf-, from an element cognate with Middle Low
German alf ‘ghost’, Middle High German alp (plural
elbe).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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