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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch, North German, and Scandinavian : from Middle Low German paves, pawes ‘pope’, perhaps applied as a nickname for someone renowned for his piety.
  • North German and Dutch : a reduced form of Pabst.
  • Americanized form of South GermanPfaus, a variant of Pfautz.

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