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Updated June 9, 2019

How Popular Is The Name Pagan

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish (Pagán) : Castilianized spelling of Catalan Pagà, from the Late Latin personal name Paganus, which originally meant ‘dweller in an outlying village’ (see Paine).
  • Spanish : in some cases it may be a topographic name from Catalan pagà ‘heath’, from Latin pagus ‘district’, ‘outlying village’.
  • Northern English and Scottish : probably from the Latin medieval personal name Paganus, the vernacular form of which was Paine (see Paine).

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