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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : patronymic from an old Germanic personal name, Papo (see Papin 2).
  • Czech, Slovak, and Slovenian (Papeš, Papež) : ironic nickname for someone who behaved or looked like the Pope, from the vocabulary word papež. Compare German Pabst.

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