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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name for a jailer or someone employed at a keep or castle, Middle English kepe.
  • Americanized spelling of German Kiep, from a short form of the old personal name Gebolf, from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements geb ‘gift’ + wolf ‘wolf’. Compare Gebhardt.

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