About the Leef Surname

Spelling was not fixed until the modern era, so Leaf could easily become Leef. The family name meaning is “The beloved person”, the same as for Leaf.

Leef is listed among the recognised spellings of Leaf. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Other spellings include Leafe.

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