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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : nickname or a metonymic occupational name for a shepherd, from the Limburg dialect word shoepp ‘sheep’.
  • North German (Schöpp) : occupational name for a juryman, Middle Low German schepe, schepen(e).

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