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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German and Dutch : variant of Hopp.
  • South German : nickname from dialect hoppen ‘to hop’ (a variant of standard German hüpfen).
  • Danish : from North German Hopp (see Hopf), or the Danish byname Hoppe ‘horse’, ‘mare’.
  • English : metonymic form of Hopper 1.

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