Knipp Family History
- Knipp Name Meaning
- German and Dutch: metonymic occupational name for someone whose work involved clipping or snipping. German: nickname for an unimportant person, from Middle Low German knippe ‘snap of the fingers’, ‘trick’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 62,717 Historical Documents with Knipp on Ancestry
- 26,847 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 8,176 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,831 Military Records
- 1,100 Immigration Records
- 24,763 Member Trees
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Number of Knipp families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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