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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from pane ‘bread’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for a baker or as a nickname meaning ‘a good thing’.
  • Dutch : from a pet form of the personal name Frans, Dutch form of Francis.
  • Variant of English Paine.

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