Chipp Family History

English: from Middle English chip chippe ‘small piece of wood chipped or cut off’ possibly a nickname given to a carpenter or a woodcutter to a small person or to a youngster resembling his father (‘a chip off the old block’).

English and Scottish: occasionally perhaps a variant of Cheape either a nickname from Middle English chepe ‘bargaining bargain price’ probably given to a merchant or trader or possibly a habitational name from Cheapside a broad street in London in which markets were held recorded as Chepe in medieval documents.