as a Last Name
- 16,082
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Duff
Meaning & Origins
Scottish and Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duibh (‘descendant of Dubh’), Mac Giolla Duibh (‘son of the servant of Dubh’), or a short form of Duffin 2 (County Wexford), MacElduff (County Tyrone; see Kilduff), Mac Duibh, and Duffy, all of which are formed from personal names containing the element dubh ‘dark’, ‘black’ (widely used as a nickname or byname for a dark-haired man or man of dark temperament and as an element of personal names).
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 16,082
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Kentucky
- has the most people named Duff per capita
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