Sopp Family History

English: nickname from Middle English soppe ‘piece of bread dipped or soaked in wine, water, milk, etc.’ also ‘soup with croutons of toasted bread’ and therefore a name either for someone with a partiality for sops or for a cook, or perhaps short for Middle English milkesoppe ‘milksop, coward’.

English: perhaps from an unrecorded Middle English personal name Soppe (Old English Soppa, from soppa ‘sop (as in 1 above), sponge’).

English: perhaps a nickname from Middle English sope (Old English sāpe) with shortening of the vowel given to someone who made or used soap. Compare Soper.

German: metonymic occupational name for a cook from Middle High German soppe, suppe ‘soup, stock, meal’.