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perhaps for someone with a heavy stride or an awkward way of walking from a conjectural Middle English word *stauper *stouper or with substitution of the pejorative suffix -ard Middle English *staupard *stoupard. Compare 19th-century Whitby (NR Yorks) dialect stauper ‘a clumsy fellow a clown’ from the dialect verb staup stowp stoop ‘to walk clumsily and heavily’ which is recorded in English Dialect Dictionary from Northumb and Cumb southwards as far as Derbys and Lincs. The name was sometimes confused with Stobbart and perhaps with Stopford.perhaps for a maker of stoups. *Stauper *Stouper and *Stoper would be unrecorded derivatives of Middle English *staupe stoupe stope (Old Scandinavian staup reinforced by Middle Dutch stoop) ‘a jug often made of leather; a measure for liquids; a vessel or container for holy water’. This explanation accounts for the variation between Stauper Stoper Stooper and possibly Stopper but not the forms with final -d -t or -th unless through false association with other names such as (1) above.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016