Talk:Kaplan (surname)

Nonsense
«The French form derived from the old Norman French word "caplain", which gave the old French and medieval English word "chapelain", »

This is nonsense The French form does not derive from Norman French (always this anglo-norman-centricity). These are parallel forms. C+a (in Norman and Picard French) gives almost systematically Ch+a in Francien (around Paris) and Tch+a in Walloon for example. Tours is not in Normandy... So the Francien form evolved in parallel (chape [de plomb], chapelain while also keeping cape [et d'épée]) at the same time as Norman French formed Cape and Capelain. The one is not derived from another. English also took Chapel from (standard Francien) French, to designate a small Church [where the cape was kept]. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.143.217.186 (talk) 14:18, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Our name is Koplen. Our family has lived in Virginia and the south since the late 1800s. Our great-grandfather, Max Koplen, immigrated through NYC, then settled in Virginia. As often happened, two brothers were in Europe. One, Max, came to the US and was intending to bring the other over when finances allowed. They lost contact and never reunited. We have been looking ever since. About 15 years ago, we found a clan of Koplen's in Texas who were not Jewish. We tried to find the common ancestor but have not been able to. There are only about 120 Koplens in the US as far as Social Security records show. Don Koplen Boulder, Colorado

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BetacommandBot (talk) 23:00, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Polish and Polish Jewish origin
There actually is a word "kaplan" in Polish. It means a "priest" or a "preacher". It also functions as a surname. Not only ethnic Poles, but maybe even mainly Polish-Jews owned this surname. 192.162.150.105 (talk) 12:09, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
 * It obviously comes from the already identified source and is a borrowing via Yiddish. Cf. "chaplain" and how non-Polish "kaplan" is in its morphology. JesseRafe (talk) 13:45, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Yiddish borrowed many things from Polish. Yiddish was a much younger language than Polish. The surname "Kapłan" itself was first Polish before it became Jewish, because until the 16th century, Jews usually didn't own surnames in Eastern Europe. 217.172.246.145 (talk) 20:21, 19 June 2017 (UTC)