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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Rolfe.
  • German : from Ruffo, a short form of a personal name formed with hrōd ‘renown’, ‘victory’.
  • Probably an Americanized spelling of German Ruf and Ruff.

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