Last name: ROPER
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ROPER : This last name is indexed 154,013 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
ROPER : 1: English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): occupational name from Middle English roper(e) ‘maker or seller of rope’. See Roop.2: North German (Röper): occupational name for a town crier from an agent derivative of Middle Low German rōpen ‘to call’.
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