Last name origins & meanings:
- English (mainly northern), North German, Dutch, and French: nickname for someone with a severe or pompous manner or perhaps a
pageant name for someone who had played the part of a pope or priest,
from Middle English pope or Old French pape ‘pope’,
Middle Low German, Middle Dutch pape ‘priest’, Old French
pape ‘pope’. Compare Papa.
- German: nickname from a baby word for ‘father’. Compare
Baab.
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