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Taffet

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Origin uncertain. It may be the French surname Taffet, a nickname for a coward, from an onomatopaeic root taff, now preserved only in dialects in the sense ‘fear’.

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