Kaplan Family History
Kaplan Name Meaning
Jewish (Ashkenazic): surname used as a translation of
Cohen, from German Kaplan or Polish kaplan
‘chaplain’, ‘curate’.German, Swedish, Czech, and Slovenian;
Slovak (Kaplán); Polish (Kaplan); Hungarian (Káplán): status
name for a deacon, chaplain, or curate (ultimately from Late Latin
capellanus (see Chaplin 1), or a nickname for someone
resembling a clergyman).Turkish: from kablan
‘tiger’, hence a nickname for someone thought to resemble a tiger,
typically in having indomitable courage or spirit. In the form
Kaplanis, this is also found as a Greek surname, with various
patronymic and other derivatives (Kaplanidis,
Kaplanoglou, Kaplanellis, etc.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Kaplan Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Kaplan families
 908 - 1,813  303 - 907 |
 1 - 302  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Kaplan families
|
14 - 26 5 - 13 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Kaplan families
|
6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Kaplan Family Origin
Kaplan Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Kaplan
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Kaplan Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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