Rappaport Family History
- Rappaport Name Meaning
- Jewish (Ashkenazic): most people bearing this name are descended from Avrom-Menakhem Ben-Yankev Hakoyen Rapa, who lived in Porto, Italy, at the beginning of the 16th century. The etymology of his name is uncertain but possibly from German Rappe ‘raven’. Compare Rapp. According to one explanation his descendants added the name of their city, Porto, in order to distinguish themselves from unrelated Jews surnamed Rapa; according to another, there was a marriage between the Rapa and Porto families, and the issue of this union took the compound name.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 60,393 Historical Documents with Rappaport on Ancestry
- 24,740 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 14,646 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,938 Military Records
- 7,804 Immigration Records
- 10,265 Member Trees
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Number of Rappaport families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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