Family name Naper (Naper 
) , throughout the world, is a rare last name. The cognomen Naper is habitual in Northern Europe, particularly Norway, where it is quite a rare surname, Ireland, where it is a rare surname, and Denmark. Not in comparison with a country's population, it most frequently occurs in Norway, the United States, and Pakistan. Much less frequently, Naper is the forename as well as the last name.
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| Naper | Norway, India, Pakistan, Philippines, United States |
| william naper (1749-1791) (b. 1749) |
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| james naper British Member of Parliament (1791-1868) (b. 1791) |
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| joseph naper shipbuilder, businessman, politician, and town founder, US (b. 1798) |
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| james naper English cricketer, army officer, and farmer (b. 1825) |
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| william dutton naper (1830-1915) (b. 1830) |
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| william lenox naper (1879-1942) Irish army officer (b. 1879) |
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| ella naper British artist, GB (b. 1886) |
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| charles naper GB (b. 1882) |
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| charles naper GB (b. 1882) |
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| merrik oliver lennox naper (1913-1943) (b. 1913) |
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| meriel daphne selina naper (born 1920) (b. 1920) |
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| nigel william ivo naper (1922-1978) (b. 1922) |
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| erling naper Norwegian civil servant (b. 1936) |
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| audrey carola naper (born 1947) (b. 1947) |
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| james denis merrik naper (born 1949) (b. 1949) |
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