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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name for someone from Nippe in Hesse.
  • German : nickname for an alert, astute person, from Middle Low German nip ‘exact’, ‘sharp‘’ (of sight and hearing)’, the -er reflecting the full (masculine) ending.

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