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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from huppe ‘hoopoe’ (the bird), perhaps applied as a nickname for someone with hair resembling the hoopoe’s crest or a with a long curved nose resembling its bill.
  • German (also Hüppe) : from a pet form (Hubo) of the personal name Hugebert, composed of hug ‘spirit’, ‘thought’ + berht ‘bright’, ‘famous’.

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