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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name for a maker or seller of rope, from an agent derivative of Old English rāp ‘rope’. See also Roop.
  • Variant of French Robert.
  • North German (Röper) : occupational name for a town crier, from an agent derivative of Middle Low German rōpen ‘to call’.

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