Happ Family History
- Happ Name Meaning
- South German: metonymic occupational name for someone who made sickles or who used a sickle, from Middle High German happe, heppe ‘sickle’, ‘vineyard worker’s hook’. German: from a reduced form of the medieval German personal names Hadebald or Hadebert (see Happel).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 58,802 Historical Documents with Happ on Ancestry
- 26,566 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 11,998 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,895 Military Records
- 1,885 Immigration Records
- 15,458 Member Trees
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Number of Happ families
 10 - 18  4 - 9 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Happ census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Happ census records
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