as a Last Name
- 5,870
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Papa
Meaning & Origins
Italian: nickname from papa ‘father’, ‘priest’, ‘pope’. In southern Italy it is generally a nickname for someone thought to resemble a priest, or in some cases for the illegitimate child of a priest, but in the North it is more often a nickname meaning ‘pope’, denoting a vain or pompous man. In Calabria it also means ‘uncle’.
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 5,870
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Rhode Island
- has the most people named Papa per capita
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