Southern Italian: habitational name from the Campanian city of
Naples, now the third largest city in Italy. The place name, Italian
Napoli, Latin Neapolis, is from Greek nea ‘new’ +
polis ‘city’. It was an ancient Greek colony taken over by the
Romans in the 4th century bc.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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