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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Ukrainian and Belorussian : patronymic from the nickname Chaplya ‘heron’, ‘stork’ (see Chaplin 2), with the common surname suffix -ski.
  • Americanized spelling of Polish Czaplinski.

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