Peifer

Peifer is a German family name .

Origin and meaning

Peifer is a professional name in Middle High German phīfer with the meaning> Pfeifer, Spielmann <.

distribution

The surname Peifer occurs frequently in West Central Germany.

Well-known namesake

• Christina Peifer (* 1991), German actress
• David Peifer (1530–1602), Chancellor of the Electorate of Saxony, German lawyer and publicist
• Karl Heinz Peifer (* 1937), Vice President of the Federal Labor Court from 1996 to 2002
• Karl-Nikolaus Peifer (* 1962), German lawyer
• Nicolas Peifer (* 1990), French wheelchair tennis player
• Yann Peifer, German DJ, see Yanou

variants

• Peiffer
• piper
• Pfeiffer
• Beeper

Individual evidence

1. ^ Duden - Familiennames , Dudenverlag, Mannheim - Leipzig - Vienna - Zurich, 2000, ISBN 3-411-70851-4 , pp. 497, 502f.
2. ^ Konrad Kunze, Damaris Nübling et al .: German surname atlas . Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin / Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-029059-2 , Volume II: 62-66, 71; Volume V: 559, 579 and e- ISBN 978-3-11-030787-0 .