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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : patronymic from Popp.
  • German (Pöpper) : variant of Pepper.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : origin uncertain; perhaps a habitational name from Poprad, now in Slovakia. Compare the Poprad river in the same region, called Popper in German.

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