The knabe Surname
knabe Name Meaning and History
German: status name for a young man or a page, from Middle High
German knabe. In aristocratic circles this term denoted a page
or squire (a youth destined to become a knight), while among artisans
it referred to a journeyman’s assistant or (as a short form of
Lehrknabe) ‘apprentice’. In the 15th century a semantic split
between Knabe and its variants Knape, Knapp(e)
resulted in Knabe meaning ‘boy’ and Knapp(e) ‘servant’,
‘apprentice’, and ‘miner’ in modern German.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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