The clapper Surname
clapper Name Meaning and History
- English: from Middle English clapper ‘rough bridge’, applied as a topographic name or as a habitational name from any of the numerous minor places named with this word.
- English: nickname from an agent derivative of Middle English clappe ‘chatter’.
- Americanized spelling of German and Jewish Klapper ‘chatterer’.
- Americanized form of German Klopper, a metonymic occupational name relating to several trades, from Middle Low German klopper ‘clapper’, ‘bobbin’, ‘hammer’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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