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apt Name Meaning and History

  1. German: variant of Abt.
  2. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): habitational name from Apt, the Yiddish name of Opatów in Kielce voivodeship, Poland. The place name (in German, Yiddish, and Polish) is from a root meaning ‘abbot’, the place having been named for the local abbey.

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

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Distribution of apt Families in the US in 1920
Number of apt families
 10-18
 4-9		 1-3
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 22 - Messages: 58
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Charles Apt in 1940 PA Basketball Team Photo Not_A_Relative 0
POW/MIA Korean War, APT raysestak126 0
james apted pearloconnor 1
Jean Morris Apt NMFireHorse 1
Rosanna Blackwood m. Joseph Apt 1840 Maine PeggieBreedloveGarber 0
Looking for Daniel Apt a Sea Captain Deanna Willis 13
apt Joseph S. Taggett 2
Two CARLOW Brothers marry two APT sisters, Maine PeggieBreedloveGarber 0
Help on finding my great grandma's name please? teresav_1986 2
Hugh and Esther (Simon) Apt jbodene1 0
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