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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : from the verb kloppen, which has many meanings, including ‘to tap’, ‘to knock’, ‘to beat’, ‘to sound’, and could therefore have been applied in various ways as a nickname or an occupational name, for example for a bellringer.

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