Kiper Family History
Kiper Name Meaning
Americanized form of German Keiper . German: variant of Kieper and Küper (see Kuper ). Jewish (from Poland and Ukraine): metonymic occupational name for a coppersmith from central and southeastern Yiddish kiper ‘copper’. In some instances it may have been adopted as an artificial name.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022