About my surname

Isn't coffee grown and made in Africa? Coffie seems like a derivative of coffee.
This might not make sense. I'm naturally blonde and high. Bye

It's rare enough that I can't find much historical evidence in the censuses. Most likely it's an alternative spelling of Coffey, which gives you Irish roots.

If it's African, it would have to be recent. Most people who left Africa in the past would have been in the slave trade and given the surname of the slave owner.

The sad fact is, unless you are direct ancestry to noble families, most people can only trace thier ancestry back to about the 1600s. before that people didn't keep records very well, most couldn't even read or write. Surnames were taken as occupations such as john carpenter , john the carpenter, or john smith, john the smith.

well a few hundred years back there was not a lot of standardized spelling.
it may well mean
Coffee!
the question is when did your family leave africa,
if you HAVE an african last name you might not have been a part of "middle passage"
thank your lucky stars!

You're Irish lad.