Hopper Family History
Hopper Name Meaning
English and Scottish: occupational name for a professional
tumbler or acrobat, or a nickname for a restless individual with
plenty of energy, Middle English hoppere, an agent derivative
of Old English hoppian ‘to hop’.German: nickname
from an agent derivative of Middle High German, Middle Low German
hoppen ‘to limp or stumble’.Dutch: occupational
name for a hop grower or seller, from Middle Dutch hoppe
‘hop(s)’ + the agent suffix -er.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Hopper
Name Distribution of Hopper Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hopper families
 533 - 1,064  178 - 532 |
 1 - 177  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hopper families
|
21 - 39 8 - 20 |
1 - 7 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hopper census records
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Hopper Family Origin
Hopper Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Hopper Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Hopper census records
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Military Service by Hopper
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