The mapp Surname
mapp Name Meaning and History
- from a variant of the medieval female personal name Mab(be), a short form of Middle English, Old French Amabel (from Latin amabilis ‘loveable’). This has survived into the 20th century in the short form Mabel.
- possibly from an unattested Old English male personal name, Mappa.
- Welsh: from Old Welsh map, mab ‘son’, which was used as a distinguishing epithet.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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