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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swiss German : probably a topographic name of the same origin as Niffern, a habitational name from Nufringen in Swabia, formerly Nüfferen, Niffern + egger, from Middle High German ecke ‘corner’.

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