Updated January 31, 2024

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Girl name origins & meanings

  • English : Baker

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : Dark

Boy name variations

Duffy

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Family name origins & meanings

  • 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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