German: metonymic occupational name for a grower of hops or dealer
in hops, or a metonymic occupational name for a brewer, from the use
of hops in the manufacture of beer, from Middle High German
hopfe ‘hops’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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