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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : probably a nickname for a clumsy person, from Middle High German hōh ‘high’, ‘tall’ + the dialect word dapp ‘fool’.
  • possibly a short form of a Germanic personal name composed with od ‘property’, ‘wealth’, Hot(t)op, altered under Slavic influence.

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