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.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Papa Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Papa families
 10 - 17  4 - 9 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Papa last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Papa census records
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Papa Family Origin
Papa Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Papa Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Papa census records
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Military Service by Papa
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