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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Rapp 2.
  • French : habitational name from La Rappe in the Vosges, so named from Middle French raspe ‘wood cut from a copse’, ‘cut brushwood’.

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