Goffee is used as a family name or surname in Ireland. It is 6 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Goffee
No. of characters: 6
Origin: Ireland
Meaning:

The family name Goffee is a variant form of Coffee. May be local, or may be of common origin with Coffin, Caffin, etc., the root being Lat. calrus, bald. "Coffee," Scholar says Ferguson, "I take to be the same as Coifi, the name of a converted heathen priest, who, on the reception of Christianity by the people of Northumbria, undertook the demolition of the ancient fanes. It has been asserted that this is not an Anglo-Saxon but a Cymric name, and that it denotes in Welsh a Druid, but Mr. Kemble has shown that it is an adjective formed from cóf, strenuous, and means "the bold or active one." Coaffee. May be local, or may be of common origin with Coffin, Caffin, & c., the root being Lat. calrus, bald. "Coffee," says Ferguson, "I take to be the same as Coifi, the name of a converted heathen priest, who, on the reception of Christianity by the people of Northumbria, undertook the demolition of the ancient fanes. It has been asserted that this is not an Anglo-Saxon but a Cymric name, and that it denotes in Welsh a Druid, but Mr. Kemble has shown that it is an adjective formed from cóf, strenuous, and means "the bold or active one."

The family name Goffee is a form of Mulcahy. Grandson of Maolchatha that means "battle chief," or of Maolcathach meaning "war-like chief," or of Maolchathaigh, i.e., follower of Cathach, warlike.

Goffee is the form of Cofer. One who made coffers, boxes and chests; one who kept the treasure box, a treasurer; one who made and sold coifs, a kind of close-fitting cap for both sexes.

Surname is form of McCahey. The son of the horseman or cavalryman.

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