Frequency: (477)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. North German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Pepper.
2. Dutch: metonymic occupational name for a spicer, from Middle Dutch pe(e)per ‘pepper’.
GIVEN NAMES: German 5%. Heinz (2), Bernhard, Ewald, Leonhard, Reinhold, Udo.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
