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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from late Middle High German zipf, zipfel ‘point’, ‘tip’, ‘corner’, hence a topographic name for someone who occupied a narrow corner of land, as for example between converging channels of a stream.
  • South German : nickname for a simpleton.

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