Frequency: (121)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Slovenian: habitational name for someone from any of numerous places called Rupe or Rupa, or a topographic name, all derived from rupa ‘hole in a limestone karst’, ‘hollow’, ‘basin’.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
