Nopper
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Frequency: (128)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German: occupational name for someone whose job was to remove burls from newly made cloth, from an agent derivative of Middle High German nop(pe) ‘tuft of wool’. Compare English Napper.
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