Frequency: (920)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. Altered spelling of German Kiefer.
2. German: nickname for someone who was quarrelsome, from an agent of Middle High German kīben, kīven ‘to quarrel’.
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