The chapman Surname
chapman Name Meaning and History
English: occupational name for a merchant or trader, Middle English
chapman, Old English ceapmann, a compound of
ceap ‘barter’, ‘bargain’, ‘price’, ‘property’ + mann
‘man’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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