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Updated June 9, 2019

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.

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