First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
Probably a variant of South German Dafferner, an occupational name for an inn- or tavern-keeper, Middle High German tavernære, a borrowing from Latin tabernarius, or a habitational name from Tafern in Baden.