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Alf 2 m English
Short form of Alfred.

Biff m English (Rare)
From a nickname that was based on the English word biff, which means "punch, hit, strike".

Cliff m English
Short form of Clifford or Clifton.

Duff m English (Rare)
From a Scottish or Irish surname, derived from Anglicized spellings of Gaelic dubh meaning "dark".

Geoff m English
Short form of Geoffrey.

Jeff m English
Short form of Jeffrey.

Radcliff m English (Rare)
From a surname that was derived from a place name meaning "red cliff" in Old English.

Ralf m German, Swedish, Danish, English (Rare)
Variant of Ralph.

Randolf m English
From the Old German elements rant meaning "rim (of a shield)" and wolf meaning "wolf". The Normans brought this name to England, where there existed already an Old Norse cognate Randúlfr, which had been introduced by Scandinavian settlers. Randolf became rare after the Middle Ages, though it was revived in the 18th century (usually in the spelling Randolph).

Rolf m German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, English
From the Old German name Hrolf (or its Old Norse cognate Hrólfr), a contracted form of Hrodulf (see Rudolf). The Normans introduced this name to England but it soon became rare. In the modern era it has occasionally been used in the English-speaking world as a German import.

Wilf m English
Short form of Wilfred.

Wolf m German, Jewish, English (Rare), Germanic
Short form of Wolfgang, Wolfram and other names containing the Old German element wolf meaning "wolf" (Proto-Germanic *wulfaz). It can also be simply from the German or English word. As a Jewish name it can be considered a vernacular form of Zeev.