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knipp Name Meaning and History

  1. German and Dutch: metonymic occupational name for someone whose work involved clipping or snipping.
  2. German: nickname for an unimportant person, from Middle Low German knippe ‘snap of the fingers’, ‘trick’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The knipp name in History

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Distribution of knipp Families in the US in 1920
Number of knipp families
 19-35
 7-18		 1-6
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 64 - Messages: 150
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KNIPP Elsa 1898 1958 t42FiveMile 0
Samuel M. Knipp son of William F. Knipp Patrica Stuart 5
Knipp Information Available Claudenime 0
John Knipp sharonmcpherson_1 0
Valeria Knipp (nee Koprowski) becx8 0
TAMMY KNIPP Douglas Whelan 0
obit;Dempsey Arvil Knipp Sr. James 1
PHOTO: Roland A. Knipp, Esther Bopp, and Pastor Paul Mall kathy3643 0
herman knipp phyllis knipp 0
herman knipp wdmaxey 0
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