When William Clapp was born on 5 July 1636, in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Capt. Roger Clapp, was 27 and his mother, Joanna Ford, was 19. He died on 22 September 1638, in his hometown, at the age of 2.
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English (Devon and Somerset): either from Middle English clop(pe), clap(pe) ‘lump’, perhaps denoting a stocky person, or Middle English clap(pe) ‘loud noise; noisy, idle chatter’.
Americanized form of German Klapp .
In some cases also an Americanized form of Slovenian Klep: nickname from klep ‘sharpness of scythe or sickle’, also ‘sharpening with a hammer’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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