Pope Family History
Pope Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English pope (derived via Old English from Late Latin papa ‘bishop’, ‘pope’, from Greek pappas ‘father’, in origin a nursery word.) In the early Christian Church, the Latin term was at first used as a title of respect for male clergy of every rank, but in the Western Church it gradually came to be restricted to bishops, and then only to the bishop of Rome; in the Eastern Church it continued to be used of all priests (see Popov, Papas). The nickname would have been used for a vain or pompous man, or for someone who had played the part of the pope in a pageant or play. The surname is also present in Ireland and Scotland.North German: variant of Poppe. ExG pwh: That's all EG wrote.
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Name Distribution of Pope Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Pope families
 327 - 651  110 - 326 |
 1 - 109  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Pope families
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826 - 1,650 276 - 825 |
1 - 275 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Pope families
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35 - 67 12 - 34 |
1 - 11 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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