Knopf Family History
Knopf Name Meaning
German (also Knöpf) and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German knopf German Knopf ‘swelling lump knob button glob’ hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of buttons or a nickname for a small rotund man (especially in Swabia where the term also has the sense ‘dumpling’) or a topographic name for someone who lived by a rounded hillock.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022