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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Polish : from a personal name, a diminutive of Karp 2.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from the Yiddish personal name karpl, a pet form of Karp 1.
  • Altered form of Polish Karpiel ‘rutabago’, a metonymic nickname for a peasant farmer.

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