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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : possibly from a pet form of an Old French personal name, Pamphile, from Greek Pamphilos, the name of a 4th-century martyr, from pan ‘all’ + -philos ‘dear to’, ‘beloved of’.

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