Last name: LAPP

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LAPP : This last name is indexed 47,997 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

LAPP : 1: German English and Dutch: from Middle High German and Middle English lappe Middle Dutch lap ‘cloth patch rag’ a metonymic occupational name for a mender of clothes or shoes or a nickname given to someone who wore ragged clothes or garments with loose folds flaps or hanging sleeves or who had fleshy folds of skin on his face neck or body.2: German: nickname for a simple-minded person from Middle Low German lappe ‘fool’. This surname (in any of the two possible senses; see also 1 above) is also found in France (mainly Alsace also Lorraine).3: English: nickname from Anglo-Norman French lappe ‘burdock’ perhaps for someone with a prickly character.4: Germanized or Americanized form of Slovenian Lap 2.

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