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Hoppe History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

Origins Available:
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The name Hoppe is from the ancient Anglo-Saxon culture of the Britain and comes from the son of Robert. 1 2

"Hob, patronymic Hobbs and Hobson. Naturally these surnames have left many descendants. Owing to its popularity Hob became the everyday term for a country clown." 3

Early Origins of the Hoppe family

The surname Hoppe was first found in Shropshire where the name first entry was as a forename as in Hobbe Litel, who was listed in the Pipe Rolls of 1176. A few years later, Hobb(e) (with no forename) was listed in the Curia Regis Rolls for Northumberland in 1198, the Pipe Rolls for Yorkshire and the Curia Regis Rolls for Worcester in 1205. These entries may be of the same person, but that is doubtful. Moving on, Osbert, Ralph Hobbe was found in the Pipe Rolls for Rutland in 1204, and again in the Pipe Rolls for Warwickshire in 1230. Isabella Hobbes was in the Subsidy Rolls for Worcester in 1327. 4

The Hundredorum Rolls of 1273 included: Agnes Hobbis, Huntingdonshire; and John Hobbe, Oxfordshire. 3

In Somerset, John Hobbes and William Hobbeson, were both listed 1 Edward III (during the first year of King Edward III's reign). 5

Later, the Yorkshire Poll Tax Rolls of 1379 listed: Willelmus Hobbes; Petrus Hobbeson; Willelmus Hobbeson; and Robertus Hobson. 3

Early History of the Hoppe family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Hoppe research. Another 85 words (6 lines of text) covering the years 1198, 1529, 1532, 1538, 1569, 1588 and 1679 are included under the topic Early Hoppe History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Hoppe Spelling Variations

The first dictionaries that appeared in the last few hundred years did much to standardize the English language. Before that time, spelling variations in names were a common occurrence. The language was changing, incorporating pieces of other languages, and the spelling of names changed with it. Hoppe has been spelled many different ways, including Hobbs, Hobs, Hobbes, Hobis, Hopp, Hoppe, Hopps and many more.

Early Notables of the Hoppe family

Distinguished members of the family include Robert Hobbes (d. 1538), the last abbot of the Cistercian abbey of Woburn in Bedfordshire, held the office in 1529. "Hobbes was summoned to convocation in November 1529, and in the following January received a license to hold two annual fairs in the town of Woburn. In 1532 he, with four other abbots, was commissioned by the king to hold a visitation of the whole Cistercian order, in place of the abbot of Chailly, who had been charged to undertake this duty by the head visitor and reformator of the order." 6 Thomas Hobbs (also spelled...
Another 111 words (8 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Hoppe Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Hoppe Ranking

In the United States, the name Hoppe is the 4,050^th most popular surname with an estimated 7,461 people with that name. 7

Hoppe migration to the United States +

Thousands of English families in this era began to emigrate the New World in search of land and freedom from religious and political persecution. Although the passage was expensive and the ships were dark, crowded, and unsafe, those who made the voyage safely were rewarded with opportunities unavailable to them in their homeland. Research into passenger and immigration lists has revealed some of the very first Hoppes to arrive in North America:

Hoppe Settlers in United States in the 17th Century

Andries Hoppe, who immigrated to New York with his wife Geertje Hendricks and his daughter Catrina in 1653

Hoppe Settlers in United States in the 18th Century

Joh Gottolb Hoppe, who landed in Pennsylvania in 1750 8
Caspar Hoppe, who arrived in America in 1780 8
Johann Hoppe, who arrived in America in 1783 8

Hoppe Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

Caspar Hoppe, a mercenary from Braunschweig who settled in America after being sent to fight in the Revolutionary War
Dietr Hoppe, who landed in North America in 1832-1849 8
Georg Hoppe, who landed in America in 1834 8
Joh Hoppe, aged 20, who arrived in Brazil in 1838 8
Charlotte Sophie Hoppe, aged 26, who landed in America in 1843 8
... (More are available in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.)

Hoppe Settlers in United States in the 20th Century

Hugo Hoppe, who arrived in Arkansas in 1905 8

Hoppe migration to West Indies +

The British first settled the British West Indies around 1604. They made many attempts but failed in some to establish settlements on the Islands including Saint Lucia and Grenada. By 1627 they had managed to establish settlements on St. Kitts (St. Christopher) and Barbados, but by 1641 the Spanish had moved in and destroyed some of these including those at Providence Island. The British continued to expand the settlements including setting the First Federation in the British West Indies by 1674; some of the islands include Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Island, Turks and Caicos, Jamaica and Belize then known as British Honduras. By the 1960's many of the islands became independent after the West Indies Federation which existed from 1958 to 1962 failed due to internal political conflicts. After this a number of Eastern Caribbean islands formed a free association. 9

Hoppe Settlers in West Indies in the 19th Century

Ludwig Joseph Hoppe, who arrived in Jamaica in 1835 with his wife Elis Osterhold

Contemporary Notables of the name Hoppe (post 1700) +

Richard T Hoppe MD,, American Professor and Chairman of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Stanford School of Medicine
Hans-Hermann Hoppe (b. 1949), Austrian school economist, an anarcho-capitalist (libertarian) philosopher, and a Professor of Economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Rolf Hoppe (1930-2018), German film and stage actor
Dieter Hoppe (b. 1941), German Professor of Chemistry who won the "Otto Bayer – Award" in 1993, the "Max Planck – Award for international cooperation", and "Adolf-von-Baeyer-Gedenkmünze" in 2001
Fred M Hoppe Ph.D.,, Canadian Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University

Citations +

Arthur, William , An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. London: 1857. Print
Harrison, Henry, Surnames of the United Kingdom: A Concise Etymological Dictionary Baltimore: Geneological Publishing Company, 2013. Print
Bardsley, C.W, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances. Wiltshire: Heraldry Today, 1901. Print. (ISBN 0-900455-44-6)
Reaney, P.H and R.M. Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames. London: Routledge, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-415-05737-X)
Dickinson, F.H., Kirby's Quest for Somerset of 16th of Edward the 3rd London: Harrison and Sons, Printers in Ordinary to Her Majesty, St, Martin's Lane, 1889. Print.
Smith, George (ed), Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1885-1900. Print
"What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_West_Indies