Meaning & origin
What it means
Yaffe is a form of Jaffe. Jaffe goes back to Hebrew יפה (yafé), meaning “beautiful, comely.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Yaffe is a form of Jaffe. Jaffe comes from Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Yaffe’s family of names
In English usage, Yaffe as a surname has a related form in Jaffe. In Russian usage, Yaffe as a surname is a transliteration of Яффе.
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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