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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : nickname for a crafty person, from volpe ‘fox’ (Latin vulpes).
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : habitational name from a place in Belarus, southeast of Grodno, the Yiddish name of which is Volp(e) (Belorussian, Russian Volpa, Polish Wołpa).

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