The knopf Surname
knopf Name Meaning and History
German (also Knöpf) and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle
High German knopf ‘swelling’, ‘lump’, ‘knob’, ‘button’, ‘glob’,
modern German Knopf, hence a metonymic occupational name for a
maker of buttons, normally of horn; a nickname for a small, rotund man
(especially in Swabia, where the term also has the sense ‘dumpling’);
or a topographic name for someone who lived by a rounded hillock.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| Thread | Author | Replies |
| we have 3 Knopf's back to 1799 |
 bojangles2_1
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| Philip and Mary Magdeline Knoop |
family5000
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| Knopf | Natalie Knopf | 2 |
| William (Wilhelm) |
skug
| 2 |
| Knopf |
WGFGER
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| Find ancesters | Knayles (Knaylor) Knopf | 11 |
| Walter E. Knopf - Mother was Ethel |
mcjimlinda
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| Wolf and Fanny Knopf |
webvwc
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| KNOPF surname |
dhknopf
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| Bertha KNOPF and Simon TUCHLER |
becolvin
| 1 |
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