English: nickname, of Norman origin, for someone who was a swift
walker, from Old French bon ‘good’ + pas ‘pace’. It may
also have been a topographic name, with the second element used in the
sense ‘passageway’. Compare Malpass.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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