Tapia Family History
Tapia Name Meaning
Galician Asturian-Leonese and Spanish: habitational name from any of the places in Galicia Asturias and Burgos so named with tapia ‘mud wall’. Jewish (Sephardic): adoption of the Iberian surname (see 1 above) at the moment of conversion to Roman Catholicism. After the return to Judaism (generations later) some descendants retained the name their families used as Catholics.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022