Where does the last name Lapara come from?

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Spain, Diocese of Albacete, Catholic Church Records, 1504-1979 54

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Some may be mis-transcribed, and there may be others that should be "Lapara" but are mis-transcribed, so they aren't.

Based on that I'd say it came from Italy and Spain.

I looked up Herbert for you:

Herbert Name Meaning

1) German, Dutch, English, and French: from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements heri, hari ‘army’ + berht ‘bright’, ‘famous’. In Britain, this Old French name, introduced by the Normans, reinforced the less common Old English cognate Herebeorht. The surname was taken to Ireland after the Anglo-Norman invasion and in the 16th century.

2) Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the German personal name.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press

With respect your surname tells you nothing at all about who your ancestors were or where they came from, at best it tells you the language spoken, heard or which influenced the first ancestor to take the surname....and you are highly unlikely to find who that was simply as surname were first taken by choice up to 800 years ago ( and records suitable for family history purposes do not go back that far)

" I know Hebert is French" HOW do you KNOW? As knowing in genealogy means you can prove and that means written primary records, not surname websites, Also 'Lapara' is ONE surname and so ONE line of ancestry, so how can one line be mostly French, Germans, and a few English and Italian..... so you researched ONE line who moved around Europe and you have researched and proved that or just looked at surnames/words and found where those names/words appear?

Start with yourself and the records you already have at home and in the homes of your living family, no name searching but RECORDS attached to a person as that is the ONLY way you will find out where your ancestors came from http://familytimeline.webs.com/recordsinyourownhom...

When you "do" your ancestry, it is a specific... in other words, you identify your PARENTS, next your grandparents, gr grandparents, etc. Genealogy is RELATIONSHIPS to you, which are proven through documents. Therefore... it does not matter what your "last names are"... you are only the child of ONE father and one mother. You are the grandchild of 4 persons, and each of them are specific (and the grandmothers are identified by maiden name... in order to locate their parents).

The wording of your question leads me to think that you are looking in some index, to find different locations where the name is found. Ted shows an example of this. You seem to be finding a number of Laparas, each of whom originate in different countries. No wonder you are confused.

My advice.. DO NOT DO genealogy by a surname or an alleged origin. That is not what ancestry is. Genealogy (again) proves who your ancestors are, and explicit facts about that single person. No offense intended...if you are looking for surname, you are making the single most common error in new researchers.