as a Last Name
- 1,309
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Papas
Meaning & Origins
Greek: status name meaning ‘priest’ or, more usually, a reduced form of any of the numerous Greek patronymics starting with Papa- (see for example Papageorgiou). In the Eastern Church priests are allowed to marry and have children, so there is nothing unusual about this term having become a family name.
| 21,146th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,309
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Massachusetts
- has the most people named Papas per capita
Top state populations
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