Surname

Corfu

Corfu is a surname from Greek. It is used in Romanian.

Original GreekΚόρφου

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Corfu comes from Greek.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Greek Κόρφου.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Corfu’s family of names

In Romanian usage, Corfu as a surname was borrowed from the Greek form Κόρφου.

Walk Corfu’s family in the name graph

CorfuΚόρφου

The ring: across languages.

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Across languages 1

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

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Sibling ideas

Names that share Corfu’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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