Etymology

Chaffee

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Today it means: A surname from Old French. Full definition →

Old French chauf
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromchauf“bald”
  2. English todayChaffee

From Old French chauf (“bald”), perhaps through Norman.

Words from the same roots

Old Frenchchauf all →

Chaffin

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.