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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Bavaria; also Höpfer) and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a grower of hops or dealer in hops, from Middle High German hopfe ‘hops’, German Hopfen + the agent suffix -er.

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