Hooper
[ˈhuːpər]Meaning
English surname from the archaic term hooper, a fitter of barrel hoops
Background Story
Hooper is an English surname, and Hoopes is a variant of it with the same origin. It comes from the archaic term hooper, the man who fitted the wooden or metal hoops around the barrels or buckets that the cooper had made, essentially an assistant to the cooper. A user-submitted entry also records it as a rare modern English given name for boys.
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