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rappa Name Meaning and History

Italian: from Sicilian rappa ‘bunch’, ‘cluster’ or Italian rappa ‘lock’, ‘quiff’, presumably applied as a nickname with reference to someone’s hair.

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rappa Family Facts

Distribution of rappa Families in the US in 1920
Number of rappa families
 18-33
 7-17
 1-6
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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