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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • 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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