Family name origins & meanings
- Dutch : possibly a nickname for some kind of official, from Middle Dutch rappoort, rapport ‘report’, ‘statement’, ‘account’, ‘declaration’.
- Possibly an altered spelling of the Swiss family name Rappard, a habitational name from Rappertswyl, Switzerland, named from the Germanic personal name Radobert, a compound of rād, rāt ‘advice’, ‘counsel’ + berht ‘bright’.