Last name origins & meanings:
- Welsh: nickname for a red-haired person (see Gough).
- English (of Cornish and Breton origin): occupational name from
Cornish and Breton goff ‘smith’ (cognate with Gaelic
gobha). The surname is common in East Anglia, where it is of
Breton origin, introduced by followers of William the Conqueror.
- Irish: reduced form of McGoff.
- Edward Goffe was a farmer in Cambridge MA whose house was acquired
by Harvard College some time before 1654 and used as a dormitory,
known as Goffe’s College.
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