Last name: LEAF

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LEAF : This last name is indexed 11,892 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

LEAF : 1: English: nickname from Middle English lef leff lief life ‘beloved’ (Old English lēof ‘beloved; dear one sweetheart’).2: English: occasionally perhaps from a Middle English personal name Lef. This could represent either Old Norse Leifr (see Leif 1) or Old English Lēof which though unrecorded is a very probable short form of Old English names such as Lēofrīc Lēofwine. Compare Leif 3.3: Americanized form of Swedish Lööf Löf or Löv: ornamental name from löv ‘leaf’. Compare Leif 2.4: Americanized form (translation into English) of Jewish and German Blatt French Canadian Bellefeuille.

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