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Updated March 26, 2024

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How Popular Is The Name Maple

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name for someone who lived by a maple tree, Middle English mapel (Old English mapul).
  • French : from Latin mapula, a diminutive of mappa ‘piece of cloth’, ‘napkin’, presumably a metonymic occupational name for a cloth merchant or a weaver.

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