Chop Family History
Chop Name Meaning
Americanized form of Swiss German Tschopp . Ukrainian: from chop ‘European pike-perch’ (Lucioperca volgensis) a nickname for someone supposedly resembling the fish in some way. Americanized form of Slovak Čop: nickname from čop ‘European pike-perch’ (see 2 above). Americanized form of Slovenian and Croatian Čop (see Cop ).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022