Buffin Family History
- Buffin Name Meaning
- possibly of Flemish origin, from a pet form of the Germanic personal name Bufo. alternatively, perhaps, from a diminutive of Old French bufe, buffe ‘blow’, ‘slap in the face’, hence probably a nickname for a rough or uncouth man.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 30,085 Historical Documents with Buffin on Ancestry
- 9,321 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 7,086 Census and Voter Lists
- 764 Military Records
- 312 Immigration Records
- 12,602 Member Trees
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Number of Buffin families
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Buffin families
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21 - 40 8 - 20 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Buffin census records
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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- All Buffin
- 19
- Confederate
- 8
- Union
- 11
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