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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian : nickname for a greedy or voracious person, from pappa ‘he eats’, from pappare ‘to munch or gobble’, or from a short form of a compound of this verb + a noun, as for example Pappalardo, Pappacoda (coda ‘tail’).
  • Southern Italian : possibly a variant of Papa.

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