Ripp Family History
Ripp Name Meaning
German and Dutch: from a short form of the personal name Rippert, composed of the elements ric ‘power’ + berht ‘bright’, ‘famous’. English: topographic name for someone who lived by a strip of woodland, an unattested Old English word rip, or a habitational name from Ripe in East Sussex, named with this word.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press