Scarff
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Frequency: (265)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
English: from northern Middle English scarfe ‘cormorant’ (Old Norse skarfr), either a nickname for someone bearing some supposed resemblance to a cormorant, or else a survival into Middle English of the Old Norse byname Scarfi, from the same source.
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