"Traditional English name"
The name Joplin is commonly a female name from the "English" origin.
Joplin is an English surname that has been taken up as a given name in the United States. The Dictionary of American Family Names derives the surname from the Middle English personal name Jopelin, a diminutive of Jop, itself a short form of Job. The surname is best known through the singer Janis Joplin (1943-1970), and Joplin first appears as a first name in US birth records in 1978.
The pronunciation of Joplin is JOP-lin.
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