Duif ("dove, pigeon") is an archaic Dutch 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.Duive at the Corpus of First Names in The NetherlandsDuif at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands.
Jan Ariens Duif (1617–1649), Dutch Golden Age painter from Gouda Tjeertje Bergers-Duif (born 1944), Dutch sprint canoer Duyff (1907–1969), Dutch World War II resistance fighter
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De Duif, a church on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam Daub Douwe, West-Frisian given name of the same origin