Last Name DUFF

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Meaning	The son of Douf. From Scotch Macduff. Black. The family are descended from the celebrated Macduft, Thane of Fife in the eleventh century. In the Gaelic, signifies black, but in the Cornish British and Welsh, a captain.

Origin	Scottish, French, Irish, Austrian, Hungarian

Rank	2,058 (2000 US census)	2,163 (1990 US census)

Count	16,119 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

87.34%, or 14078 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
8.62%, or 1389 total occurrences, as black,
0.54%, or 87 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.36%, or 58 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.56%, or 251 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.58%, or 255 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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