Tapp (surname)
Tapp is a surname with multiple convergent origins. In England, Tapp was used as a given name, from the Old English name Tæppa, and became a surname in relation to it.[1][2][3] Alternatively, also in England, some instances of the surname Tapp have occurred as the result of abbreviation of various surnames beginning in "Tap-".[4] Additionally, in England and Scotland, the surname Tapp arose as a variant of the surname Topp.[4][5] Another additional proposed potential English origin for some instances of the surname is as a nickname from the Middle English words tape meaning ribbon or tape or tappe meaning to plug, tap, or knock.[5] The surname also has separate German origins. It may have arisen as an occupational surname for a wine tapper at a tavern.[6][7] It can also be from a shortening of ancient Germanic name Theudobrand, roughly meaning "people of the sword".[8] Another origin for the surname is as a nickname, from northern Germany, for a clumsy or simple-minded person, from the Middle Low German word tappe meaning "oaf".[8]
Notable people with the surname include:
- Alex Tapp (born 1982), English footballer
- Alistair Tapp (born 1964), English cricketer
- Bill Tapp (1929–1992), Australian cattleman
- Brad Tapp (born 2001), Australian soccer player
- Colton Tapp, American actor, model and musician
- David A. Tapp (born 1962), American judge from Kentucky
- Darryl Tapp (born 1984), American football player
- Emily Tapp (born 1991), Australian wheelchair paralympic athlete
- Finley Tapp (born 1999), English television personality
- Frank Tapp (1883–1953), English composer, pianist and conductor
- Gary Tapp (born 1953), American politician from Kentucky
- Gordie Tapp (1922–2016), Canadian singer
- Hannah Tapp (born 1995), American volleyball player
- Ian Tapp, English sound engineer
- Jake Tapp (born 1988), Canadian swimmer
- James Tapp Jr. (1977–2003), American rapper under the stage name Soulja Slim
- James B. Tapp (1920–2014), American flying ace of World War II
- Jay Tapp, Canadian swimmer
- Jimmy Tapp (1918–2004), Canadian radio personality
- John Tapp (fl.1596–1615), English writer on navigation
- Johnny Tapp (born 1941), Australian racecaller
- Mike Tapp, British soldier and politician
- Margaret and Seana Tapp, Australian murder victims
- Nigel Tapp (1904–1991), British Army general
- Paige Tapp, now Paige Sander (born 1995), American volleyball player
- Russell Tapp (1943–2010), British luger
- Theodore Tapp (1883–1917), English cricketer and British Army officer
Fictional characters
- David Tapp, character from the Saw franchise
See also
- Tappe, a related surname
References
- ↑ Freedman, Terry; Macleod, Iseabail (1997). The Wordsworth Dictionary of Surnames. Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions. p. 230. ISBN 185326380X.
- ↑ Ayto, John (2007). Encyclopedia of Surnames. London: A & C Black. p. 300. ISBN 9780713681444.
- ↑ Parkin, Harry (2021). Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain $ Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780191939877.
- 1 2 Harrison, Henry; Pulling, Gyða (1918). Surnames of the United Kingdom: a concise etymological dictionary. Vol. 2. London: The Morland Press. p. 209.
- 1 2 Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard A.; McClure, Peter (2016). The Oxford dictionary of family names in Britain and Ireland. Oxford (GB): Oxford university press. p. 2627. ISBN 9780199677764.
- ↑ Bahlow, Hans (1993). Dictionary of German Names. Translated by Gentry, Edda (translated ed.). Madison: Friends of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies. p. 554. ISBN 0924119357.
- ↑ Jones, George F. (2006). German-American Names (3 ed.). Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing. p. 327. ISBN 0806317647.
- 1 2 Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.). Oxford University Press. 2022. ISBN 9780190245122.