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Pappan

Updated: April 16, 2025
Updated: April 16, 2025

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swiss French : probably a variant of Papin, a derivative of paper ‘to eat gluttonously’, which had the sense in Old French of ‘baby’s pap’, or alternatively of Papon, from Old French and Occitan papon ‘grandfather’.

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