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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : unexplained. In part at least, the name appears to be of Dutch or French (possibly Huguenot) origin, perhaps a translation of Papier, a metonymic occupational name for a clerk or scribe, or perhaps a respelling of Pape.
  • Swiss German : variant spelling of Papper, probably from baby talk. Compare Paben.

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