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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : metonymic occupational name for someone who made or used shovels or scoops, from Middle Dutch schoepe, schope, schuep ‘shovel’, ‘scoop’.
  • German : variant of Schuppe.

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