Last name origins & meanings:
- English: metonymic occupational name for a maker and seller of
gloves or a nickname for a wearer of particularly fine gloves, from
Middle English cuffe ‘glove’ (of uncertain origin; attested in
this sense from the 14th century, with the modern meaning first in the
16th century).
- Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac
Dhuibh, a variant of Mac Duibh ‘son of the black one’ (see
Duff).
- Irish: approximate translation of Gaelic Ó
Doirnín (see Dornan).
- Cornish: nickname from Cornish
cuf ‘dear’, ‘kind’.
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