The paradise Surname
paradise Name Meaning and History
- 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 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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Threads: 59 - Messages: 172
| Thread | Author | Replies |
| Therese Paradise Roy 1926-2009 |
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| Joseph & Marcella Paradise, NY | Jeannine Paradise | 8 |
| Rachel Parradice m. Allen Knight, lived TN | Nicki | 9 |
| Tennessee Paradise m/o Andrew Jackson Paradise | Patsy Paradise-Irwin | 14 |
| StCyr / Paradis Canada NH. |
 lmchilders
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| PARADISE bef. 1800 |
DEBORA
| 19 |
| Octave Paradise b. 1822, CAN>MI |
Do_It_2_It
| 5 |
| Paradise family, Quincy, MA mid 1800 |
GParadise1924
| 9 |
| Peter Paradise, Nanticoke, PA |
MBensh
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| Obit: Olive (Paradise) Tomb b. 23 Mar 1911 d. 29 Apr 1979, Steuben Co, NY | Jean Kay Morse | 0 |
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