Roup
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Frequency: (130)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. Dutch: from Middle Dutch roep, roup ‘crying’, ‘shouting’, hence perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a town crier.
2. Altered spelling of German Raup or Rupp.
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