Family name origins & meanings
- English : metonymic occupational name for a trapper, from a derivative of Middle English trapp ‘trap’.
- German : nickname for a stupid person, from Middle High German trappe ‘bustard’ (of Slavic origin).
- German : topographic name for someone living by a step-like feature in the terrain, from Middle Low German treppe, trappe ‘step’, or by a flight of steps, standard German Treppe.
- Thomas Trapp (b. 1635) was in Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard, MA, by 1659. He or his family probably came originally from Great Baddow, Essex, England.