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knipper Name Meaning and History

  1. metonymic occupational name for someone whose worked involved clipping or snipping.
  2. habitational name from a farm named Knippen near Mülheim, Cologne.

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

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Distribution of knipper Families in the US in 1920
Number of knipper families
 16-30
 6-15		 1-5
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 26 - Messages: 85
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Knipper's from Germany to Covington Kentucky & Beyond michele_molina 3
Knipfer, Augusta Christina AmyPoulos 3
Frank & Caroline Knipper albanarius1 0
KNIPPER, Adam aunthoot 16
Re: Thomas Theopolis Knippers & Margaret Deseria Lamberth brendaknippers 0
Knipper Search Coco Hildebrand 15
Knipper for Neider Weisel, now Germany Mgstef 3
Elizabeth Hammeral Knipper DonaldHite75 0
Funeral Card for Mary (Knipper) Bolte Elizabeth Booth 1
knipper-ulmer diane d. quick 0
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