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Duif

Duif is an archaic Dutch male given name and patronymic surname. Variant spellings include Duijf, Duyf and Duive. Female forms are Duifje, Duifke, Duijfie, etc., some of which are still in use.Jan Ariens Duif (1617–1649), Dutch Golden Age painter from Gouda Tjeertje Bergers-Duif, Dutch sprint canoerDuyffJan Willem Duyff (1907–1969), Dutch World War II resistance fighter

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Duif ("dove, pigeon") is an archaic Dutch male given name and patronymic surname. Variant spellings include Duijf, Duyf and Duive. Female forms are Duifje, Duifke, Duijfie, etc., some of which are still in use.12

Duyff
  • Jan Willem Duyff (1907–1969), Dutch World War II resistance fighter
References

References

  1. Duive at the Corpus of First Names in The Netherlands
  2. Duif at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands.
See also

See also

  • De Duif, a church on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam
  • Daub
  • Douwe, West-Frisian given name of the same origin