Last name: SHIPPEN

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All you have to know about the last name SHIPPEN

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SHIPPEN : This last name is indexed 10,323 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

SHIPPEN : English: from Middle English shipen ‘cattle shed’ (Old English scypen). The name may be topographic for someone who lived by a cattle shed or habitational from a place so named such as Shippen in Barwick (Yorkshire) or Shippon (Berkshire). In some cases the name may also have been used as a nickname for a cowman who would often have lived in the same building as his animals.

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