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Type Surname (from nickname & from occupation)

Meaning & History

From a reduced form of French eschapin or Spanish chapín, a term for a light (woman's) shoe; perhaps a nickname for someone who habitually wore this type of footwear or possibly a metonymic occupational name for a shoemaker.
Added 3/29/2016 by anonymous
Edited 3/27/2020 by Marusero