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Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Hesse, the Rhineland) : from a short form of Jacob.
  • German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name composed with geba ‘gift’ (see Gapp 2).
  • of uncertain origin : Bahlow asserts that it is Frisian Tjappen, but equally it may be the Biblical name Japhet.