What does the surname hipperson mean?

Question

What does the surname hipperson mean?

Answer 1

Could mean you are related to an hippopotamus who knows.

Answer 2

Son of Hipper

Answer 3

Based on the construction of the surname Hipper+ son

it means "son of Hipper"....given this,

the question becomes what is a hippe or hipper?

A hippe is a billhooked knife which goes by many names depending on what country. Hippe is of german origin.

Hence, Hipperson would mean the son of the hipper or pruner or gardner. Most likely the original Hipperson was a local farmer who had an orchard or garden helper who pruned trees.

For images of a hippe/hookbill pruning knife see:

http://www.timelesstools.co.uk/cat_pages...

Answer 4

it means they're a hip person :]

Answer 5

Put into your search engine hipperson /surname origin. it should answer a few of your questions!!!