Duif

Duif ("dove, pigeon") is and archaic Dutch male given name and patronymic surname. Variant spellings include Duijf, Duyf and Duive. Female forms are Duifje, Duifke, Duijfie, etc., some of which are still in use.[1][2]

Jan Ariens Duif (1617-1649), a Dutch Golden Age painter from Gouda
Tjeertje Bergers-Duif (born 1944), a Dutch sprint canoer

Duyff

Jan Willem Duyff (1907–1969), Dutch WWII resistance fighter

References

Duive at the Corpus of First Names in The Netherlands
Duif] at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands.

See also

Look up duif in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

De Duif, a church on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam
Daub
Douwe, West-Frisian given name of the same origin

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