Pappan Family History
Pappan Name Meaning
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’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Pappan Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Pappan families
 14 - 25  5 - 13 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Pappan families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Pappan census records
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Pappan Family Origin
Pappan Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Pappan
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Pappan Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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