Family name origins & meanings
- English : metonymic occupational name for a producer or seller of table linen, from Old French nappe ‘table cloth’.
- English : either a variant spelling of Knapp or a reduced variant of Scottish McNabb.
- Altered spelling of German Knapp.
- German : metonymic occupational name for a bowl and cup maker, from Middle Low German nap ‘bowl’, ‘mug’, or alternatively, from an old personal name formed with an element cognate with Old High German (gi-)nāda ‘grace’, ‘benevolence’.