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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French (Savoy) : variant of Chaufour, from chaux ‘lime’ + four ‘oven’, ‘kiln’; a topographic name for someone who lived by a lime kiln, a habitational name from any of various places named with this term, or a metonymic occupational name for a lime burner.

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