Skip to main content

Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from Middle English clapper ‘rough bridge’, applied as a topographic name or as a habitational name from any of the numerous minor places named with this word.
  • English : nickname from an agent derivative of Middle English clappe ‘chatter’.
  • Americanized spelling of German and Jewish Klapper ‘chatterer’.
  • Americanized form of German Klopper, a metonymic occupational name relating to several trades, from Middle Low German klopper ‘clapper’, ‘bobbin’, ‘hammer’.

Join the Family

Your partner in parenting from baby name inspiration to college planning.

Subscribe