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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : from a short form of the Latin personal name Paschalis. Compare Italian Pasquale.
  • North German : nickname for someone with tax or service obligations at Easter time, from Middle Low German pāsche(n) ‘Easter’ (see Pascal). In the Middle Ages the year of the influential archdiocese of Cologne, for instance, began officially at Easter.

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