Family name origins & meanings
- North German : occupational name for a maker of clogs, from a derivative of Middle Low German klipp ‘low shoe’, ‘clog’(plural klippen).
- North German : from Middle Low German klipper ‘wooden stick’, ‘clapper’, presumably a metonymic occupational name for someone who used such a tool in his work.
- North German : occupational nickname for a plumber, from klipperer, an agent derivative of klippen ‘to clap’.