Hoop Family History

North German (Schleswig-Holstein): topographic name for someone who lived on a raised piece of land in a bog hop or a habitational name in Lower Saxony from a place called with this word.

Americanized form of Dutch Hoep a habitational name from the hamlet Hoep in Schagen North Holland probably so named because of the hoop shape of its lot or watercourse.

Dutch (mainly De Hoop): habitational name from any of several houses inns and mills named with the noun hoop mostly in the sense of ‘hope’ or hoop hoep ‘hoop’ perhaps as a reference to the production of hoops for barrels.