Klepper Family History
Klepper Name Meaning
East German (mainly Silesian): from a dialect variant of Klöpfer (see Klopfer ). German: nickname for a gossip from Middle High German kleppern klappern ‘to blabber chatter gossip’. German: from the rare Middle High German word klepper ‘knight's horse’ probably originally a metonymic occupational name for someone who tended or bred such animals. From the 16th century however the term came to denote a low-grade horse a ‘nag’ and also someone who castrated horses. Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for someone who called people to the synagogue by rattling a stick from an agent derivative of Yiddish klepn ‘to stick’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
