Type Surname (from occupation)
Usage English
Meaning & History
Variant of Culpepper. Known bearers of this surname include: Nicholas Culpeper (1616-1664), an English herbalist, physician and astrologer; and English colonial administrator Thomas Culpeper, 2nd Baron Culpeper (1635-1689), governor of Virginia 1680-1683. There was also Culpeper's Rebellion (1677-1679), an American colonial uprising in North Carolina, led by John Culpeper.