Last name origins & meanings:
- Polish, Czech, and Eastern German: from a pet form of any of
various personal names beginning with Pa-, for example local
forms of Paul or any of the Old Slavic names represented by
Czech Pačeslav and Polish Pakosław (see
Pacek).
- German: from a pet form of the personal
name Bartholomäus (see Bartholomew).
- South
German: variant of Bach.
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