Given name & surname

Cerf

“deer”

Cerf is a surname from French.

Meaning & origin

What it means

Cerf goes back to a word meaning “deer.”

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Where it comes from

Cerf comes from French.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Cerf’s family of names

In French usage, Cerf as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the German form Hirsch.

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The ring: across languages.

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Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named Cerf

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Sibling ideas

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