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Source-reportedThe hypocoristic form of a name such as Folcmar.
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- Wiktionary: PoppoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
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A given name in Old High German and Old Dutch
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01 / Meaning & origin
Poppo is a masculine given name documented in Old High German and Old Dutch. English Wiktionary records an etymology for it.
The hypocoristic form of a name such as Folcmar.
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Poppo— “father”
Charles, Pepin l'Heristal, Charles Martel, Pepin le Bref, Charles the Great, is the succession till the alternation was broken by the death of Pepin, the eldest son of Charles the Great. Now this most undignified Pepin is traced by the best authorities to be one of the many forms of the primitive and universal _abba_, father, papa, and to answer to the old German names of Bobo, Bobbo, and Poppo. And it is not, therefore, probable that Pepin and Emma stood for the northern Avi…
Charles, Pepin l'Heristal, Charles Martel, Pepin le Bref, Charles the Great, is the succession till the alternation was broken by the death of Pepin, the eldest son of Charles the Great. Now this most undignified Pepin is traced by the best authorities to be one of the many forms of the primitive and universal _abba_, father, papa, and to answer to the old German names of Bobo, Bobbo, and Poppo. And it is not, therefore, probable that Pepin and Emma stood for the northern Avi and Amma, both alike with the son Karl?
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part VI, Chapter II (Names From Teuton Mythology), Section XVIII (Forefathers) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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