The knapp Surname
knapp Name Meaning and History
- German: occupational name or status name from the German word Knapp(e), a variant of Knabe ‘young unmarried man’. In the 15th century this spelling acquired the separate, specialized meanings ‘servant’, ‘apprentice’, or ‘miner’.
- German: in Franconia, a nickname for a dexterous or skillful person.
- English: topographic name for someone who lived by a hillock, Middle English knappe, Old English cnæpp, or habitational name from any of the several minor places named with the word, in particular Knapp in Hampshire and Knepp in Sussex.
- German and western Slavic: variant of Knabe.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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