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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German and Dutch : from a variant of the personal name Kaspar.
  • German : occupational name, from an agent derivative of Middle High German kappen ‘to caponize or castrate (chickens)’.
  • Dutch : variant of Kaper.

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