Roper

A surname.

Proper noun

  1. A surname.
  2. A town in Washington County, North Carolina, United States.

Origin

* 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.

Derived

Roper Gulf Roper River Roper River Creole

From Wiktionary's contributor community, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.