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Payne
Say it: PAYN
Meaning
From Latin paganus 'rustic, villager'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A Norman name, giving the surname Payne.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 1,247 babies given this name since 1900
- At its height in 2000, about 1 in 16,200 boys
- 16 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Pain, Paganus
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Where this comes from
- The Domesday Book (1086) source
- Medieval European charters and records
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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