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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Käfer) : nickname from Middle High German keveor ‘bug’, ‘beetle’.
  • Possibly an altered spelling of German Köfer, from Low German küfe ‘hut’, ‘pen’, hence a nickname for someone living in a hut.

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