Given name & surname · also Middle English
Scarff
“cormorant”
Scarff is a surname from Middle English (ultimately Old Norse).
Meaning & origin
What it means
Scarff goes back to Middle English scarfe, meaning “cormorant.”
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Where it comes from
Scarff comes from Middle English, and ultimately from Old Norse.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Middle English scarfe (“cormorant”), from Old Norse skarfr, from Old Norse Skarfi.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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