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Puff Name Meaning
nickname for a violent, aggressive person, from buff ‘push’, ‘shove’.from a pet form of a personal name, Bodefrit, composed with Old High German biutan ‘to bid or order’ or boto ‘messenger’.possibly an altered spelling of Pfaff.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Puff Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Puff families
 36 - 69  13 - 35 |
 1 - 12  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Puff families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Puff census records
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Puff Family Origin
Puff Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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Puff Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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Puff Civil War Service Records
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