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Paine

in the US

There are 7,316 people with the last name "Paine" in the United States.

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Paine 3,788
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  5. is 3,788th most common Paine
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Similar Names and Nicknames

Payne, Painter, Paone, Pain, Paino, Peine, Painton, Painchaud, Piini, Pannu

Most Common First Names for Paine

Robert, John, David, James, Thomas, Richard, William, Michael, Mary, Charles

Meaning & History

English (mainly Kent and Sussex): from the Middle English personal name Pain(e), Payn(e) (Old French Paien, from Latin Paganus), introduced to Britain by the Normans. The Latin name is a derivative of pagus ‘outlying village’, and meant at first a person who lived in the country (as opposed to Urbanus ‘city dweller’), then a civilian as opposed to a soldier, and eventually a heathen (one not enrolled in the army of Christ). This remained a popular name throughout the Middle Ages, but it died out in the 16th century.

FOREBEARS Thomas Payne, who was a freeman of the Plymouth Colony in 1639, was the founder of a large American family, which included Robert Treat Paine (1731–1814), one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. The author of the republican treatise The Rights of Man, Thomas Paine (1737–1809), left England for North America in the mid 1770s, where he became involved in the movement that led to independence. His pamphlet of 1776, Common Sense, influenced the Declaration of Independence and furnished some of the arguments justifying it.

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