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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from German Knapp or Knopf.
  • German : nickname from a dialect word meaning ‘stork’ in Uckermark region.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from Yiddish knop ‘large button’ + the agent suffix -er.

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