Family name origins & meanings
- South German : metonymic occupational name for a baker of waffles, from Middle High German hippe ‘waffle’.
- South German : from a short form of Hubert, also spelled Hüpp (see Hupp).
- German and Dutch : from a short form of a Germanic name with the initial element hild ‘strife’, ‘battle’ and a second element beginning with b- (for example Hildibald, Hildibrand).