Pappa Family History
Pappa Name Meaning
Italian (southern): nickname for a greedy or voracious person from pappa ‘food’ or from pappa ‘he eats’ from pappare ‘to munch or gobble’ or a short form of a compound of this verb + a noun as for example Pappalardo . Italian (southern): possibly also a variant of Papa ‘father cleric pope’. American shortened form (and Greek feminine form denoting ‘the daughter or wife of’) of Greek Pappas ‘priest’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022