Chapin Family History

Chapin Name Meaning

French and Spanish: from a reduced form of French eschapin or Spanish chapín, a term for a light (woman’s) shoe; perhaps a nickname for someone who habitually wore this type of footwear or possibly a metonymic occupational name for a shoemaker.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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