The kiper Surname
kiper Name Meaning and History
- Americanized spelling of Dutch Kuiper or North German Keuper, occupational name for a cooper.
- 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’.
- Altered form of German Kaufer ‘merchant’.
- 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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