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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Altered spelling of Dutch Keppene, Keepen or Keppenne, nickname from Middle Dutch kippin ‘new-born calf’ or from Flemish keppe ‘pampered child’.
  • Respelling of German Köppen (see Koeppen).

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