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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (of Norman origin) : nickname for a greedy person, from Old French saffre ‘glutton’.
  • South German : topographic name for someone living in a damp depression.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Safir.

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