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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swiss German : probably from a metonymic occupational name for a jacket maker, from Middle High German jop(p)e, juppe ‘jacket’ (schōpe, schoppe), a loanword from Italian g(i)ubba; in some instances the surname may have arisen from a nickname for someone who wore jackets that were remarkable.

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