Klippert Family History
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Klippert Name Meaning
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
Similar surnames: Klapper, Klepper, Clapper, Skipper, Klipper, Lepper, Tipper, Kopper