Pancake Family History
Pancake Name Meaning
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Pfannkuch Pfannkuche North German Pannkoke Pankauke or Dutch Pannekoek perhaps a metonymic nickname for someone with a special liking for pancakes or who made and sold them or else a habitational name for someone who lived (or worked) at an inn named in Dutch as In de Pannekoek (‘In the Pancake’) or a farm similarly named from fields or meadows that were as flat as pancakes.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022