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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Töpfer) : occupational name for a maker of metal or earthenware pots, from an agent derivative of Middle High German topf(e) ‘pot’, ‘vessel’ (first attested in the 12th century, and at first found only in the eastern German dialects).

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