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knepper Name Meaning and History

  1. German: from German Knapp or Knopf.
  2. German: nickname from a dialect word meaning ‘stork’ in Uckermark region.
  3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Yiddish knop ‘large button’ + the agent suffix -er.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of knepper Families in the US in 1920
Number of knepper families
 61-120
 21-60		 1-20
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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