Pepper Name Meaning and History
English and North German: from Middle English peper, piper, Middle Low German peper ‘pepper', hence a metonymic occupational name for a spicer; alternatively, it may be a nickname for a small man (as if the size of a peppercorn) or one with a fiery temper, or for a dark-haired person (from the color of a peppercorn) or anecdotal for someone who paid a peppercorn rent.
Americanized form of the Ashkenazic Jewish ornamental name Pfeffer, or Fef(f)er, a cognate, from Yiddish fefer ‘pepper'.
Irish: variant of Peppard.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
English and North German: from Middle English peper, piper, Middle Low German peper ‘pepper', hence a metonymic occupational name for a spicer; alternatively, it may be a nickname for a small man (as if the size of a peppercorn) or one with a fiery temper, or for a dark-haired person (from the color of a peppercorn) or anecdotal for someone who paid a peppercorn rent.
Americanized form of the Ashkenazic Jewish ornamental name Pfeffer, or Fef(f)er, a cognate, from Yiddish fefer ‘pepper'.
Irish: variant of Peppard.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
Pepper Name Meaning and History
English and North German: from Middle English peper, piper, Middle Low German peper ‘pepper', hence a metonymic occupational name for a spicer; alternatively, it may be a nickname for a small man (as if the size of a peppercorn) or one with a fiery temper, or for a dark-haired person (from the color of a peppercorn) or anecdotal for someone who paid a peppercorn rent.
Americanized form of the Ashkenazic Jewish ornamental name Pfeffer, or Fef(f)er, a cognate, from Yiddish fefer ‘pepper'.
Irish: variant of Peppard.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
English and North German: from Middle English peper, piper, Middle Low German peper ‘pepper', hence a metonymic occupational name for a spicer; alternatively, it may be a nickname for a small man (as if the size of a peppercorn) or one with a fiery temper, or for a dark-haired person (from the color of a peppercorn) or anecdotal for someone who paid a peppercorn rent.
Americanized form of the Ashkenazic Jewish ornamental name Pfeffer, or Fef(f)er, a cognate, from Yiddish fefer ‘pepper'.
Irish: variant of Peppard.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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