Klippert Family History

occupational name for a maker of clogs, from a derivative of Middle Low German klipp ‘low shoe’, ‘clog’(plural klippen). from Middle Low German klipper ‘wooden stick’, ‘clapper’, presumably a metonymic occupational name for someone who used such a tool in his work. occupational nickname for a plumber, from klipperer, an agent derivative of klippen ‘to clap’.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press