Klapper Family History

Klapper Name Meaning

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from an agent derivative of Middle High German klappern ‘chatter’, ‘rattle’, hence a nickname for a talkative person or a gossip or a metonymic occupational name for a night watchman, a reference to the clapper used for making announcements. As a Jewish name it could be a metonymic occupational name for someone who called people to the synagogue.

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

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