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apa Name Meaning and History

  1. Southern Italian: from Sicilian and southern Italian apa, lapa ‘bee’, applied as a nickname for someone thought to resemble a bee in some way or as a metonymic occupational name for a beekeeper.
  2. Hungarian: from apa ‘father’, one of various surnames derived from relationship terms which were presumably originally applied with reference to someone of importance; other examples include Bátya ‘brother’, Fi ‘son’ Fia ‘his son’, Gyermek ‘child’, Unoka ‘grandchild’.
  3. Hungarian: from an old secular personal name Appa. The Transylvanian royal name Apafi is a patronymic from this name.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The apa name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the apa family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of apa Families in the US in 1920
Number of apa families
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 2-3		 1
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Apa's of New York Peter Perry 15
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Service Personell aboard USS Henrico APA 45 1957-59 labellatheball 0
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