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When my TUFF Swedish Viking ancestors got to America...

YellowSnowYellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 34,987 Founders Club
Their surname was Rapp.

Rapp Name Meaning

Swedish: from rapp ‘quick’, ‘prompt’; a soldier’s name, one of the monothematic names adopted by soldiers in the 17th century, before surnames became general in Sweden. German: from Middle High German rapp, rabe ‘raven’ (German Rabe), hence a nickname for someone with black hair, or some other supposed resemblance to the bird. Compare Raven. In some cases the surname may have arisen from a house name, thus denoting someone who lived in a house distinguished by the sign of a raven.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press



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