Pappa
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Frequency: (245)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Southern Italian: 1. nickname for a greedy or voracious person, from pappa ‘he eats’, from pappare ‘to munch or gobble’, or from a short form of a compound of this verb + a noun, as for example Pappalardo, Pappacoda (coda ‘tail’). 2. possibly a variant of Papa.
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Oxford Dictionary of Family Names
Dictionary of American Family Names. Copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks. All rights reserved.
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Mentioned in
Pappalardo
(family name)
Monkeys in Paradise
(1994 Comedy Film)
Choo Choo Records, Vol. 1
(2001 Album by Anthony Pappa)
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