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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish, Czech, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname from Slavic skop ‘wether’, ‘castrated ram’. The Polish word has other meanings, denoting for example a pail and a kind of tax; the surname could also have originated with one of these senses, i.e. as an occupational name either for a maker of pails or for a tax collector.

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