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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant of Zapf.
  • German : metonymic occupational name for a grower of or dealer in grapes, corn, or grain, from Middle High German zepfe ‘grape’, ‘ear (of a cereal plant)’.

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