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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : topographic name from dialect Kipp ‘point’ denoting someone who owned or farmed a piece of land with a sharp angle.
  • South German : from a pet form of a Germanic personal name formed with geba ‘gift’, as in Gebhardt.

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