Lapp Family History
Lapp Name Meaning
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. 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). English: nickname from Anglo-Norman French lappe ‘burdock’ perhaps for someone with a prickly character. Germanized or Americanized form of Slovenian Lap
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022