Slape Family History
Slape Name Meaning
English: from Middle English slape slepe ‘slippery muddy place slipway’ (Old English slǣp). The surname may be topographic for someone who lived in or by a muddy place or a slipway or habitational from a place so named such as Sleap (Shropshire) Slepe now Saint Ives (Huntingdonshire) or Slape in Netherbury (Dorset). See also Sleeper .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022