Last name origins & meanings:
- Dutch: from a short form of the medieval personal name
Bonefaas, Dutch form of Boniface.
- South German
(especially Baden-Württemberg): from a short form of the personal
name Gervasius, the name of the patron saint of Breisach on the
Rhine.
- North German (especially Lower Rhine): from a short
form of the personal name Servaes, dialect form of
Servatius, the name of the patron saint of Maastricht, one of
the three so-called ‘Ice Saints’, or of the personal name
Bonifatius (see Boniface), also borne by a saint.
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