Dreyfuss


Dreyfuss and Dreyfus are surnames.
The spelling variants, Dreyfuss vs. Dreyfus, tend to correspond to the country the family was living in at the time the spelling was standardized. Dreyfus tends to be more common among people of French origin. Dreyfuss tends to be found among those of German descent and ß.
Dreyfus is a Jewish Ashkenazic surname derived from the town of Trier on the Moselle, known in French as Trèves, from a Celtic tribal name Treveri of uncertain etymology. The form of the surname has been altered by folk etymological association with modern German Dreifuss tripod.

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