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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : nickname for someone with a wild shock of hair, from Middle High German schopf ‘tuft (of hair)’.
  • German (Schöpf; Bavarian) : status name from Middle High German schepfe ‘juryman’.

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