Girl name origins & meanings
- Old Norse : Whaler
Boy name origins & meanings
- Old Norse : Whaler
Family name origins & meanings
- English and Scottish : metonymic occupational name for a harpist (see Harper), or occasionally a habitational name for someone living at a house distinguished by the sign of a harp.
- English : habitational name from a minor place such as Harp House in Eastwood, Essex, or South Harp in South Petherton, Somerset, denoting a place where salt was produced, from Old English hearpe ‘harp’, an implement used in the processing of salt. Compare Harpham.
- German : metonymic occupational name for a harpist, from Middle High German harpfe ‘harp’.
- German : variant of Harpe.