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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Altered spelling of South German Schappel, an occupational name for a maker of headdresses, from an agent derivative of Middle High German schapel ‘headdress’ (from Old French chapel ‘wreath of leaves or flowers’; compare modern French chapeau ‘hat’).

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