Given name & surname
Duffie
“a swarthy man”
Duffie is a variant of Duff. One interpretation is “a swarthy man.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Duffie is a variant of Duff. One interpretation is “a swarthy man.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Duffie through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 40
- 34 boys · 6 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 1951. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 1918. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,933 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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