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whipple Name Meaning and History

English: of uncertain origin, perhaps, as Reaney suggests, from a pet form of the Old English personal name Wippa, or perhaps a topographic name for someone who lived by a whipple tree, whatever that may have been. Chaucer lists whippletree (probably a kind of dogwood) along with maple, thorn, beech, hazel, and yew.

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whipple Family Facts

Distribution of whipple Families in the US in 1920
Number of whipple families
 195-387
 66-194
 1-65
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