Shippen Family History
Shippen Name Meaning
English: from Middle English shipen ‘cattle shed’ (Old English scypen). The name may be topographic for someone who lived by a cattle shed or habitational from a place so named such as Shippen in Barwick (Yorkshire) or Shippon (Berkshire). In some cases the name may also have been used as a nickname for a cowman who would often have lived in the same building as his animals.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022