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Clepper
Frequency: (319)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Americanized spelling of German Klepper.

Klepper
Frequency: (847)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Eastern German (mainly Silesian): from a dialect variant of Klöpfer (see Klopfer).
German: nickname for a gossip, from Middle High German kleppern, klappern ‘to blabber, chatter, or gossip’.
German: from the rare Middle High German word klepper ‘knight's horse’, probably originally a metonymic occupational name for someone who tended or bred such animals. From the 16th century, however, the term came to denote a low-grade horse, a ‘nag’, and also someone who castrated horses.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for someone who called people to the synagogue by rattling a stick, from an agent derivative of Yiddish klepn ‘to stick’.

Klopfer
Frequency: (389)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
South German (also Klöpfer) and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name from Middle High German klopfære, German Klöpfer, a noun derivative of Middle High German klopfen ‘to pound, bang, or hammer’; this could denote someone working in the wool, hemp, or millinery trades, a miner, metal worker, or hunter.

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