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kipp Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from Middle English Kipp, perhaps a byname for a fat man, from an unattested Old English form Cyppe, which according to Reaney is from the Germanic root kupp ‘to swell’.
  2. German: topographic name for someone living on a hill, from Kippe ‘edge’, ‘brink’.
  3. German: from Sorbian kipry ‘weak’ (Czech kyprý).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of kipp Families in the US in 1920
Number of kipp families
 132-262
 45-131		 1-44
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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