The kipp Surname
kipp Name Meaning and History
- 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’.
- German: topographic name for someone living on a hill, from Kippe ‘edge’, ‘brink’.
- German: from Sorbian kipry ‘weak’ (Czech kyprý).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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