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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Dutch : variant of Hipp 1 and 3.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from a farmstead in Valdres named Hippe, from an unexplained first element + Old Norse vin ‘meadow’.
  • French : from a Germanic personal name, possibly of the same etymology as Hipp 3.

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