The strope Surname
strope Name Meaning and History
- North German: variant of Stropp, either a metonymic occupational name for a rope maker from the Low German word for rope, or a nickname for a rascal, the sense it has today.
- possibly an Americanized form of Dutch Stroop, a nickname for a poacher, from a derivative of the verb stropen ‘to raid’, ‘to plunder’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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