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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish (Munster) : from a Norman topographic name, de la Chapelle, which was taken to Ireland in the 12th century, where it became well established in the counties of Limerick and Cork.
  • German (Süpple) : metonymic occupational name for a cook, from Middle High German suppe(līn) ‘soup’, ‘stock’, ‘meal’.

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