Last Name CAFFINSummary/Contribute |
| Meaning |
Nickname: Coffin.
Nickname: The bald, from French 'chauve,' bald. A mere variation of Caffin, the earliest from being Chaufin, which would readily become Coffin and Caffin. This form seems to have taken roots in the south-western counties of England. In France the enthusiastic devotion of Nicholas Chauvin to the emperor Napoleon I gave rise to the term Chauvinism. | |
| Origin | English, Irish |
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