Roper.
A surname.
Meaning & usage
A surname.
A town in Washington County, North Carolina, United States.
The Roper River (a river in the Katherine Region, Northern Territory, Australia)
Ngukurr (a town in Roper Gulf, Katherine Region, Northern Territory, Australia)
Where this word comes from
* As an English surname, from the noun roper * As a north/Low German surname for the town crier, from Middle Low German ropen (“to call”), from Old Saxon hrōpan.
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