Czech: occupational name for a merchant or dealer, Czech
soukup (from Slavic sou- ‘with’ + kup ‘buy’). The
vocabulary word later acquired the sense ‘fence’, i.e. ‘one who
receives stolen property or abets a thief’, but this is probably
irrelevant to the surname, which was formed before this sense was
established.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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