Papa Family History
- Papa Name Meaning
- Italian: nickname from papa ‘father’, ‘priest’, ‘pope’. In southern Italy it is generally a nickname for someone thought to resemble a priest, or in some cases for the illegitimate child of a priest, but in the North it is more often a nickname meaning ‘pope’, denoting a vain or pompous man. In Calabria it also means ‘uncle’. Greek: shortened form of any of various names beginning with papas ‘priest’, for example Papageorgiou ‘priest George’. Compare Papas. In the Eastern Church priests are allowed to marry and have children. French: from a dialect variant of French Pape. Dutch: variant of Pappert. Hungarian: probably from the old secular personal name Pápa, but in some cases possibly a habitational name from a place called Pápa in Veszprém county, or some other place similarly named.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 92,065 Historical Documents with Papa on Ancestry
- 44,206 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 13,851 Census and Voter Lists
- 5,803 Military Records
- 9,907 Immigration Records
- 18,298 Member Trees
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Number of Papa families
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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10 - 17 4 - 9 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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