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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant of Bupp.
  • German : habitational name for someone from Puppe in Pomerania or from any of several places called Puppen in East Prussia.
  • German : nickname or a metonymic occupational name, from late Middle High German puppe ‘doll’ (from Latin pupa ‘girl’).

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