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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : probably a variant of English Calf(e), a nickname from Middle English calf ‘calf’.
  • The name was brought to Roxbury, MA, by Robert Calfe (1648–1719), from Stanstead, England. He is buried in the Eustis Street Burying Ground in Boston.

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