Maupin
A surname most likely from a French place name or nickname, with roots in Old French.
The #5,730 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 51,024 Americans shares it.
Etymology
Maupin is generally treated as a French surname. In many cases, names like this arose either from a place-name or from an Old French nickname built on "mau-" meaning "bad" or "ill" and a second element that has been variously explained in older scholarship. Because the exact origin is not securely established from the available evidence, the safest reading is that it is a French-language surname of uncertain specific derivation.
History
The name is found in France and later in French-speaking areas and the English-speaking world, especially through migration to North America. In the United States it is established but not especially common, which fits a surname that likely arrived through one or more immigrant lines rather than from a large native English surname tradition.
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Fun fact
The spelling looks simple, but surnames of this type can hide a very old French nickname or a lost local place-name behind just two syllables.