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Seif Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for
a soap maker, from Middle High German seife, German
Seife ‘soap’.Arabic: from a personal name based
on sayf ‘sword’. Saifullah ‘sword of Allah’ was a title
of honor bestowed by the Prophet Muhammad on the military leader
Khalid ibn-al-Walid (see Khalid).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Seif Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Seif families
 14 - 25  5 - 13 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Seif families
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8 - 13 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Seif Family Origin
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Seif Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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