Paradise

Family name origins & meanings

• English and Scottish : from Old French paradis, denoting someone who lived by a park or pleasure garden, especially one attached to a monastery, nunnery, or cathedral.
• Americanized form of French Paradis or Italian Paradiso.
• Americanized form of a Greek family name such as Paradissis, Paradissiadis, or Paradissopoulos, from a personal name based on ancient Greek paradeisos ‘paradise’, ‘pleasure garden’, from Persian pairidaesa ‘royal park’.
• Americanized form of German Paradies, a German topographic name and house name and an ornamental Ashkenazic Jewish name, from Middle High German paradīs(e), German Paradies ‘paradise’, ‘park’, ‘pleasure garden’ (see 1 and 3).