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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : perhaps an altered form of Kipphaut, a North German name meaning ‘pointed hat’, presumably applied as a nickname for someone who habitually wore one or as a metonymic occupational name for a maker of such hats.
  • German : probably a respelling of Gebhardt.

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