Prussian name Popping or Amer

Question:Poepping
German (Popping): patronymic from Bopp*.
German (also Popping): derivative of Poppo (see Poeppelman

*Bopp
German: from a Germanic personal name Boppo, of uncertain origin and meaning, perhaps originally a nursery name or a short form of a personal name such as Bodobert, a Germanic personal name meaning ‘famous leader’, composed of the elements Bodo ‘messenger’, ‘leader’ (see Bode**) + berht ‘bright’, ‘famous’. See also Popp***

**Bode
Dutch and German: occupational name for a messenger or representative, Dutch bode, Middle Low German bode. A bode was a medieval official with a variety of different functions.
German and Danish: from the North German personal name Bodo, a derivative of Old Saxon bodo ‘messenger’.
North German and Dutch: a topographic name from Middle Low German bode, bude ‘booth’, ‘small house’.
Danish: habitational name from a place named Bode.

***Popp
German: from a Germanic personal name Poppo, Boppo, of uncertain origin and meaning, perhaps originally a nursery word or a short form of for example Bodobert, a Germanic personal name meaning ‘famous leader’. It was a hereditary personal name among the counts of Henneberg and Babenberg in East Franconia between the 9th and 14th centuries.
English: from a Middle English continuation of an Old English personal name, Poppa, known only from occurrences in place names

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Poepping
German (Popping): patronymic from Bopp*.
German (also Popping): derivative of Poppo (see Poeppelman

*Bopp
German: from a Germanic personal name Boppo, of uncertain origin and meaning, perhaps originally a nursery name or a short form of a personal name such as Bodobert, a Germanic personal name meaning ‘famous leader’, composed of the elements Bodo ‘messenger’, ‘leader’ (see Bode**) + berht ‘bright’, ‘famous’. See also Popp***

**Bode
Dutch and German: occupational name for a messenger or representative, Dutch bode, Middle Low German bode. A bode was a medieval official with a variety of different functions.
German and Danish: from the North German personal name Bodo, a derivative of Old Saxon bodo ‘messenger’.
North German and Dutch: a topographic name from Middle Low German bode, bude ‘booth’, ‘small house’.
Danish: habitational name from a place named Bode.

***Popp
German: from a Germanic personal name Poppo, Boppo, of uncertain origin and meaning, perhaps originally a nursery word or a short form of for example Bodobert, a Germanic personal name meaning ‘famous leader’. It was a hereditary personal name among the counts of Henneberg and Babenberg in East Franconia between the 9th and 14th centuries.
English: from a Middle English continuation of an Old English personal name, Poppa, known only from occurrences in place names

In modern Dutch pop is a doll or poppen dolls, but in old Dutch a pop is headstock or possible the head herdsmen. But my Dutch husband thinks your name is probably closer to a another language. Your ancestors may have been like mine and changed the spelling for safety. Please see another lan guage than Nederlandse.

patronymic form of Bopp; derivative of Poppo;
spelled with umlaut O. Germanic, uncertain origin

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while you are at it, I once knew a family named "Poppenhager". Is there a connection? Would it translate to "Bubblehead"????