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paradise Name Meaning and History

  1. 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.
  2. Americanized form of French Paradis or Italian Paradiso.
  3. 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’.
  4. Americanized form of German Paradies, a German topographic name and house name and an ornamental Ashkenazic Jewish name, from Middle High German paradis(e), German Paradies ‘paradise’, ‘park’, ‘pleasure garden’ (see 1 and 3).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of paradise Families in the US in 1920
Number of paradise families
 38-74
 13-37
 1-12
 0
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