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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Low German page ‘horse’ and kopf ‘head’, a nickname and probably an occupational nickname for a horse dealer; or alternatively a habitational or topographic name from a place so named in Pomerania or locations in the Oldenburg region.

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