Frequency: (119)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Americanized form of German Saufler, a variant of Sauf(f), nickname for a drinker, from Middle High German sūfen, soufen ‘to slurp’, ‘drink’.
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