The maple Surname

maple Name Meaning and History

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.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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maple Family Facts

Distribution of maple Families in the US in 1920

Number of maple families

70-137

24-69

1-23

Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 104 - Messages: 354

Thread	Author	Replies
Hezekiah Maple	GaryNodes	1
Finding my G.G. Grandmother	homer480	5
Grandmother was a Maple.	annelush	12
James H. Maple, 74, son of , Thomas Maple and Blanche Adamson Maple	Irishlovey_1	0
maple and mapledoram connection	jlynneroy	12
William Frank Maple	Christine	2
Leila Beatrice Sewell	mickeyb0212	1
Children Abducted by Marvin & Sandra Maple	TPeter6540	0
Telford Grant Maple 1919-2005	Shirl Sowell	3
Martin L. Maple obit from NY 2002	laurarivers518	0

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