When Jane Kipp was born in 1843, in Bayham, Elgin, Ontario, Canada, her father, William Henry Kipp I, was 53 and her mother, Rachel Ann Mann, was 49. She died before 1854.
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North German: from Middle Low German kip ‘bundle (e.g. of hides or flax)’, hence probably applied as a metonymic occupational name for a fur trader, for example.
North German and Dutch: from a short form of the old personal name Gebolf, composed of the ancient Germanic elements geb ‘gift’ + wolf ‘wolf’. Compare Kip 1.
German: topographic name for someone living on a hill, from Kippe ‘edge, brink’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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