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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : occupational name for a baker or a pantryman, from an agent derivative of Old French pain ‘bread’.
  • French (Normandy) : metonymic occupational name for a basket-maker or seller, from panier ‘basket’.

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