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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (chiefly Bristol) : from Middle English clop(pe) ‘lump’, ‘hillock’ (from Old English clopp(a)), applied either as a topographic name or as a nickname for a large and ungainly person.
  • Variant spelling of German Klapp.

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