Family name origins & meanings
- Southern German (Württemberg, Bavaria) : from an agent derivative of Middle High German schoppen ‘to stuff’, possibly an occupational name for someone who stuffed cushions or mattresses.
- Southern German (Württemberg, Bavaria) : topographic name for someone who lived by a reed-grown bank, from the dialect word Schoppen ‘reedbank’.
- Southern German (Württemberg, Bavaria) : habitational name for someone from Schopp near Kaiserslautern.