as a Last Name
- 1,541
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Pfannenstiel
Meaning & Origins
South German: from Middle High German pfannenstil ‘panhandle’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a pansmith or tinker, or for a cook. Bahlow says the word is also recorded as a field name, which could have given rise to the surname.
| 18,487th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Pfenning, Pfenninger, Pfannenstein, Pfander, Pfannenschmidt, Pfantz, Pfankuch, Pfannes, Pfanstiel, Phannenstiel
Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,541
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Kansas
- has the most people named Pfannenstiel per capita
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