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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from a pet form of the medieval personal name Pascal, which was brought to England from France.
  • German : topographic name from Pass ‘pass’, ‘passage’ (from Middle Low German pas ‘pace’, ‘passage way’, ‘water gauge’).
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name or nickname from Yiddish and Polish pas ‘belt’, ‘girdle’.

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