Family name origins & meanings
- German : occupational name for a fisherman, from Middle High German keiper ‘fisherman’, ‘fish netter’, found in the Upper German dialects, but also in Prussian, keip ‘weir’ (fish trap) (see Keip) may be the source of the name.
- German : variant of Keuper, itself a variant of Käufer (see Kaufer) or of Küpper (see Kupper); this is a frequent surname in the lower Rhine area.