Puff Family History
- Puff Name Meaning
- nickname for a violent, aggressive person, from buff ‘push’, ‘shove’. from a pet form of a personal name, Bodefrit, composed with Old High German biutan ‘to bid or order’ or boto ‘messenger’. possibly an altered spelling of Pfaff.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 42,496 Historical Documents with Puff on Ancestry
- 17,666 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 7,871 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,886 Military Records
- 741 Immigration Records
- 13,332 Member Trees
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Number of Puff families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Puff families
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6 - 9 3 - 5 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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