# Napp (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/napp/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 571 |
| US rank (2010) | 38,691 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 540,710 people |
| Change since 2000 | -8.5% (624 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Various origins: * As an English surname, variant of Nabb or reduced from McNabb. * As a German surname, a variant spelling of Knapp. * English metonymic occupational surname for a maker or seller of tablecloths, from Old French nappe (“table cloth”). * Borrowed from German Napp, a metonymic occupational surname for a bowl or cup maker, from Middle Low German nap (“bowl, mug”), from Old Saxon *hnapp, from Proto-West Germanic *hnapp.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Napp in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 89% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 3.0% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.5% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.9% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 1.1% |
| Two or more races | 2.8% |

## Similar surnames

Nappi, Nava, Neff, Newby, Nave, Novoa, Nova, Neve, Novy, Nephew, Niehoff, Novo.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.