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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Devon) : habitational name from Tapeley in Devon, which Ekwall derives from Old English tæppa ‘peg’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’, i.e. ‘wood where pegs are obtained’.

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