Apa Family History

Apa Name Meaning

Southern Italian: from Sicilian and southern Italian apa, lapa ‘bee’, applied as a nickname for someone thought to resemble a bee in some way or as a metonymic occupational name for a beekeeper.Hungarian: from apa ‘father’, one of various surnames derived from relationship terms which were presumably originally applied with reference to someone of importance; other examples include Bátya ‘brother’, Fi ‘son’ Fia ‘his son’, Gyermek ‘child’, Unoka ‘grandchild’.Hungarian: from an old secular personal name Appa. The Transylvanian royal name Apafi is a patronymic from this name.

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

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Name Distribution of Apa Families

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England & Wales

Scotland

Number of Apa families

2 - 1

from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data

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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data

Apa census records

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Apa Family Origin

Italy (6)

Spain (1)

Russia (1)

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Apa Emigration Information (US)

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Apa Family Occupations

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Military Service by Apa

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family tree of frank apa	KINGCOUNTYLIB	5
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