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klepper Name Meaning and History

  1. Eastern German (mainly Silesian): from a dialect variant of Klöpfer (see Klopfer).
  2. German: nickname for a gossip, from Middle High German kleppern, klappern ‘to blabber, chatter, or gossip’.
  3. German: from the rare Middle High German word klepper ‘knight’s horse’, probably originally a metonymic occupational name for someone who tended or bred such animals. From the 16th century, however, the term came to denote a low-grade horse, a ‘nag’, and also someone who castrated horses.
  4. Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for someone who called people to the synagogue by rattling a stick, from an agent derivative of Yiddish klepn ‘to stick’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of klepper Families in the US in 1920
Number of klepper families
 22-42
 8-21		 1-7
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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