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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : variant of Karnap, from Middle Low German karnap ‘oriel window’, ‘bay window’; hence probably a habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by such a window or at a place named with this word. Karnap is also found in topographic and habitational names, such as Karnap near Essen.

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