Kipp Family History
- Kipp Name Meaning
- English: from Middle English Kipp, perhaps a byname for a fat man, from an unattested Old English form Cyppe, which according to Reaney is from the Germanic root kupp ‘to swell’. German: topographic name for someone living on a hill, from Kippe ‘edge’, ‘brink’. German: from Sorbian kipry ‘weak’ (Czech kyprý).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 225,586 Historical Documents with Kipp on Ancestry
- 92,263 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 43,128 Census and Voter Lists
- 10,772 Military Records
- 4,867 Immigration Records
- 74,556 Member Trees
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Number of Kipp families
 8 - 14  3 - 7 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kipp census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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