Duif ("dove, pigeon") is an archaic

Dutch Dutch commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands * Dutch people () * Dutch language () Dutch may also refer to: Places * Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States * Pennsylvania Dutch Country People E ...

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.Duif
at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands. * Jan Ariens Duif (1617-1649), a Dutch Golden Age painter from Gouda * Tjeertje Bergers-Duif (born 1944), a Dutch sprint canoer ;Duyff * (1907–1969), Dutch WWII resistance fighter

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