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Show ContentsMarcoff History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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The name Marcoff is a proud symbol of ancient Jewish culture. Before the late Middle Ages, people were known only by a single name. However, as the population increased and travelers set out on their journeys, it became necessary for people to adopt a second name to identify themselves. Jewish hereditary surnames were adopted from a variety of different sources. Two of the most common types of Jewish family names are patronymic surnames, which are derived from the father's given name, and metronymic surnames, which are derived from the mother's given name. The surname Marcoff is a patronymic surname, which derives from the Latin given name Marcus. In the case of the Jewish surname Marcoff, it is in many cases an Anglicization of any of several like-sounding Jewish surnames.

United States Marcoff migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Marcoff Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
  • Rosine Marcoff, aged 21, who arrived in New York in 1854 1
  1. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
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