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pagan Name Meaning and History

  1. Spanish (Pagán): Castilianized spelling of Catalan Pagà, from the Late Latin personal name Paganus, which originally meant ‘dweller in an outlying village’ (see Paine).
  2. Spanish: in some cases it may be a topographic name from Catalan pagà ‘heath’, from Latin pagus ‘district’, ‘outlying village’.
  3. Northern English and Scottish: probably from the Latin medieval personal name Paganus, the vernacular form of which was Paine (see Paine).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of pagan Families in the US in 1920
Number of pagan families
 222-441
 75-221		 1-74
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