Tapping Family History
Tapping Name Meaning
variant of Topping with unrounding of the vowel. However it is also possible that Topping has been substituted for Tapping; see (2). from the Middle English personal name *Tapping from Old English *Tæpping a pet form of the *Tæppa seen in place-names like Taplow. See also Tapp . the Sussex name may be a variant of Tuppen .
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016