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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Low German doppe, duppe ‘beaker’, ‘jar’, hence presumably a metonymic occupational name for a maker of such vessels.
  • German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with theud, diot ‘people’. ‘race’.

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