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huff Name Meaning and History

  1. English: topographic name for someone who lived by a spur of a hill, Old English hoh (literally, ‘heel’).
  2. German: from the Germanic personal name Hufo, a short form of a compound name formed with hug ‘heart’, ‘mind’, ‘spirit’ as the first element.

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huff Family Facts

Distribution of huff Families in the US in 1920
Number of huff families
 316-629
 106-315
 1-105
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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