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Surname Etymology and Meaning of HEAP

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English (chiefly Lancashire): habitational name from Heap Bridge in Lancashire, or a topographic name for someone who lived by a hill or heap, from Old English heap ‘heap’, ‘mound’, ‘hill’.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)