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kiper Name Meaning and History

  1. Americanized spelling of Dutch Kuiper or North German Keuper, occupational name for a cooper.
  2. Altered form of East Prussian Keiper, occupational name for someone who caught fish in a trap, from an agent derivative of keip ‘fish trap’, ‘weir’.
  3. Altered form of German Kaufer ‘merchant’.
  4. Jewish (from Poland and Ukraine): metonymic occupational name for a coppersmith, from central and southeastern Yiddish kiper ‘copper’. In some instances it may have been adopted as an ornamental name.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The kiper name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the kiper family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of kiper Families in the US in 1920
Number of kiper families
 24-46
 9-23		 1-8
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Kiper Family Tree kloi Kiper 3
looking for kipers angrywolf46016 1
Jefferson kiper bettyquinn44 4
Jas. W. Kiper LindaMecham74 2
old family plantation? melkee34 0
Sponenberg, Sponenburg jdnmiranda 0
Kiper Sharon Butler 1
Charles Kiper jpiper66 0
Cora Kiper jojejoam1 0
Angelina (Barton) Kiper obituary puppup 0
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