Family name origins & meanings
- Southern Italian nickname with various possible derivations : nickname with various possible derivations: from nappa ‘gib’, ‘large nose’;
- Southern Italian nickname with various possible derivations : from Calabrian nappa ‘clay dish’, or the same word in Sicilian meaning ‘dish’, ‘protruding chin (for want of teeth)’;
- Southern Italian nickname with various possible derivations : from (n)nappa ‘ingenue’.