Schipper Family History

Schipper Name Meaning

Dutch and North German: occupational name for a shipman or (in German) a shipbuilder, from an agent derivative of schip ‘ship’.Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a shovel maker or a digger, from German Schippe ‘shovel’, ‘spade’ + the agent suffix -er.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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