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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : metonymic occupational name for a producer or seller of table linen, from Old French nappe ‘table cloth’.
  • English : either a variant spelling of Knapp or a reduced variant of Scottish McNabb.
  • Altered spelling of German Knapp.
  • German : metonymic occupational name for a bowl and cup maker, from Middle Low German nap ‘bowl’, ‘mug’, or alternatively, from an old personal name formed with an element cognate with Old High German (gi-)nāda ‘grace’, ‘benevolence’.

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