Last name: CHAPMAN

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All you have to know about the last name CHAPMAN

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CHAPMAN : This last name is indexed 819,737 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

CHAPMAN : 1: English: occupational name for a merchant or trader Middle English chap(pe)man chepman Old English cēapmann cēpemann a compound of cēap ‘barter bargain price property’ + mann ‘man’.2: Jewish: English surname (see 1 above) adopted for a like-sounding (e.g. Czapnik; see Chapnick) or like-meaning Jewish name (e.g. Kaufman) in some other European language.

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