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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French (also found in England) : occupational name for a player on the harp, from Old French harpin ‘harper’.
  • A Harpin or Herpin, also called Poitevin, from Poitiers, France, is documented in St. Ours, Quebec, in 1689.

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