Chaffer Family History
Chaffer Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): occupational name from Middle English chaffer(e) chaffare ‘traffic trade; merchandise wares’ (Old English cēapfaru) presumably denoting a dealer or merchant. Alternatively the name may perhaps be a variant of Chafer an occupational name from Old French chauffour ‘limekiln worker at a limekiln’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022