Stopper Family History

English: perhaps a nickname for someone with a heavy stride or an awkward way of walking from a conjectural Middle English word stauper stouper or with substitution of the pejorative suffix -ard Middle English staupard stoupard.

English: perhaps an occupational name for a maker of stoups from Middle English staupe stoupe stope (Old Norse staup reinforced by Middle Dutch stoop) ‘jug often made of leather; measure for liquids; vessel or container for holy water’. Alternatively, the name may derive from an unrecorded Middle English stopper perhaps ‘maker of pails, buckets, or jugs’, a derivative of Middle English stoppe (Old English stoppa).

English: variant of Stopford, a habitational name from Stockport (Cheshire) from Old English stoc ‘place, secondary settlement’ + port ‘town, market’.

German: occupational name from an agent derivative of Middle High German stoppen ‘to repair’.

Germanized form of Sorbian Stopjera and Stopora: from Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian vernacular forms of the Greek personal name Christophoros (see Christopher). Germanized form of Slovenian Stopar.