Last name origins & meanings:
- Southern Italian: from Sicilian and southern Italian
apa, lapa ‘bee’, applied as a nickname for someone
thought to resemble a bee in some way or as a metonymic occupational
name for a beekeeper.
- Hungarian: from apa ‘father’,
one of various surnames derived from relationship terms which were
presumably originally applied with reference to someone of importance;
other examples include Bátya ‘brother’, Fi ‘son’
Fia ‘his son’, Gyermek ‘child’, Unoka
‘grandchild’.
- Hungarian: from an old secular personal name
Appa. The Transylvanian royal name Apafi is a patronymic
from this name.
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