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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a short form of the Germanic personal name Theudobrand, a compound of theod ‘people’ + brand ‘sword’.
  • German : reduced form of Tippenhauer, an occupational name from Low German Tippe ‘wooden pail’, ‘tub’ + houwer (High German Hauer) ‘cutter’.
  • English : variant spelling of Tippin.

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