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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Eastern German : nickname from Middle High German klapp ‘malicious gossip’, ‘idle chatter’. Compare Klepper.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of seventeen farmsteads named Klepp, notably in Agder and Vestlandet, from Old Norse kleppr ‘bluff’, ‘cliff’.

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