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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : variant of Haff.
  • South German : metonymic occupational name for a potter, from Middle High German hafen ‘pot’.
  • Swedish : topographic name, an altered spelling of hav ‘sea’, ‘ocean’, or an adoption of the North German name (see 1 above).

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