The Dreyfüss Last Name

If a Dreyfüss family bore arms, our report explains whose they were and what the blazon shows.

In the records

605 Americans were listed as Dreyfüss in the 2010 census. That puts it among the top 50,000 US surnames. 728 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Dreyfüss name at birth. There were 85 such births in the 1890s and 37 in the 1990s.

Spelling in old records was loose, so search for Dreyfüss under several forms. The meaning of Dreyfüss is not given in the reference works we use for these short pages; a full report traces it from your own family's records. Dreyfüss is a last name with a clear footprint in official records.

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