Raper Family History
Raper Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): variant of Roper. In southern
dialects of English, Old English -a- became Middle English
-o-, whereas in Yorkshire -a- was preserved and gave
rise to this form of the surname.Possibly also an
altered spelling of German Röper or Röber (see
Roeber).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Raper Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Raper families
 44 - 86  15 - 43 |
 1 - 14  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Raper families
|
413 - 823 138 - 412 |
1 - 137 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Raper families
|
11 - 20 4 - 10 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Raper Family Origin
Raper Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Raper
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Raper Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Raper census records
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