Etymology

Culpepper

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Middle English Coulpeper
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  1. Middle English · inherited fromCoulpeper
  2. English todayCulpepper

From Middle English Coulpeper, Cullepeper, equivalent to cull (“to cull, gather”) + pepper, i.e. ("spice-gatherer").

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.