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Paternoster

in Delaware

There are 5 people with the last name "Paternoster" in Delaware.

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Paternoster 19,465
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  1. is 19,461st most common Passley
  2. is 19,462nd most common Pat
  3. is 19,463rd most common Patellis
  4. is 19,464th most common Pater
  5. is 19,465th most common Paternoster
  6. is 19,466th most common Pates
  7. is 19,467th most common Patnovic
  8. is 19,468th most common Patro
  9. is 19,469th most common Patrone

Similar Names and Nicknames

Patel, Pate, Paterson, Patenaude, Pater, Paterno, Pates, Paternostro, Patek, Patella

Most Common First Names for Paternoster

Emilie, Anthony, Courtney, Lora

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Meaning & History

English (Essex), French, German, and Italian (Apulia and Basilcata): from Latin pater noster ‘Our Father’, the opening words of the Lord's Prayer, which is represented by large beads punctuating the rosary. The surname was a metonymic occupational name for a maker of rosaries, often a shortened form of the Middle English, Middle High German occupational term paternosterer. It may also have been originally a nickname for an excessively pious individual or for someone who was under a feudal obligation to say paternosters for his master as part of the service by which he held land.

Dutch: probably a habitational name from the name of a house in Delft, ‘Int paternoster’, built in 1600. In this case the derivation is from the word as a term for manacles which hold the hands together so that it appears that the restrained person is praying.

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