Family name origins & meanings
- North German : metonymic occupational name for a gardener and horticulturalist, from Middle Low German prop ‘graft’, or a reduced form of a Germanic personal name formed with a cognate of Old High German proz ‘opening bud’.
- North German : nickname for a fat little man, from Middle Low German proppe ‘stopper’, ‘plug’.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : origin uncertain; possibly the same as 2 or 1 above.