Pantages
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Pantages
Frequency: (112)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Americanized form of Greek Pantazis, from a personal name meaning ‘may you live for ever’, from panta ‘always’ + zis ‘may you live’ (an inflected form of the verb zein ‘to live’).
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