Leaf Family History
Leaf Name Meaning
English: from the Old English personal names Leofa
(masculine) and Leofe (feminine) ‘dear’, ‘beloved’. These
names were in part short forms of various compound names with this
first element, in part independent affectionate bynames.English:
apparently a topographic name for someone who lived in a densely
foliated area, from Middle English leaf ‘leaf’; a certain
Robert Intheleaves is recorded in London in the 14th
century.Americanized form of Swedish Lö(ö)f,
Löv, an ornamental name from löv ‘leaf’.English translation of the Ashkenazic Jewish ornamental surname
Blatt.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Leaf
Name Distribution of Leaf Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Leaf families
 24 - 46  9 - 23 |
 1 - 8  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Leaf families
|
141 - 280 48 - 140 |
1 - 47 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Leaf families
|
4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Leaf census records
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Leaf Family Origin
Leaf Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Leaf
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Leaf Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Leaf census records
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