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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German (Döpke) : from a Low German pet form of Theobald.
  • North German (Döpke) : metonymic occupational name for a potter, from a diminutive of Low German doppe, duppe ‘beaker’, ‘jar’. See also Dopp.

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