# Yapp

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**Yapp** is an old English surname, derived from an Old English word meaning "crooked, bent; deceitful; shrewd, smart".[1] Notable people with the surname include:

- [Charlotte Seymour Yapp](/source/Charlotte_Seymour_Yapp) (1879–1934), British nurse
- [Jake Yapp](/source/Jake_Yapp), British comedian, composer, and writer
- [John Yapp](/source/John_Yapp) (born 1983), Welsh international [rugby union](/source/Rugby_union) player
- [Malcolm Yapp](/source/Malcolm_Yapp) (1931–2025), British historian
- [Richard Henry Yapp](/source/Richard_Henry_Yapp) (1871–1929), English botanist
- [Stan Yapp](/source/Stan_Yapp) (1933–2012), first leader of [West Midlands County Council](/source/West_Midlands_County_Council)
- [William Brunsdon Yapp](/source/William_Brunsdon_Yapp) (1909–1990), zoologist
- [Yapp Hung Fai](/source/Yapp_Hung_Fai), footballer

There is also a type of binding known as "yapp"; this is a [limp leather binding](/source/Limp_binding) with the covers overlapping the edges of the book; it is named after a bookseller called Yapp.[2]

## See also

- [Ye (surname)](/source/Ye_(surname)), spelled Yap or Yapp in Hakka and Minnan
- [Yap](/source/Yap), an island in the Pacific Ocean in the Federated States of Micronesia
- [Yappie](/source/Yappie)
- [Yapp (mobile application)](/source/Yapp_(mobile_application))

## Footnotes

1. Cottle, Basil (1967) *The Penguin Dictionary of Surnames*. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books; p. 330.

1. Macdonald, A. M. (ed.) (1972) *Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary*. London: Chambers ISBN 055010206X; p. 1582.

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