Origin of last name Popp?

Question

do you have the last name Popp and/or know where it comes from? The word in my family is that it's a Hungarian name. I have also heard it may be German-Hungarian. Is it a shortened form of a longer name?

Answer 1

this is from ancestry.com

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.

Answer 2

Could "Popp" be a misspelling/variant form of "Papp"? The latter is a fairly common Hungarian name (also found as "Pap"). If you've met a dead end searching on Popp, it's certainly worth a try to search on Pap/Papp.

The word "pap" means priest. The name could have originated either as a direct occupational term (though in that case it wouldn't have been likely to become inherited), or as a descriptive based on some sort of relationship or association with a priest (e.g. nephew or servant), or as a descriptive based on priestly behavior/characteristics.

Answer 3

If you edit your question with your great grandparents names, approximate year of birth and location, someone should be able find some information for you.

I'll check back :-)