The chapin Surname
chapin Name Meaning and History
French and Spanish: from a reduced form of French eschapin
or Spanish chapín, a term for a light (woman’s) shoe;
perhaps a nickname for someone who habitually wore this type of
footwear or possibly a metonymic occupational name for a shoemaker.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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