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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish, Czech, and Eastern German : from a pet form of any of various personal names beginning with Pa-, for example local forms of Paul or any of the Old Slavic names represented by Czech Pačeslav and Polish Pakosław (see Pacek).
  • German : from a pet form of the personal name Bartholomäus (see Bartholomew).
  • South German : variant of Bach.

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