Given name & surname · also Galician
Pais
Pais is a surname from Galician, ultimately from Portuguese. It is used in English, Portuguese, and Galician.
Original PortuguesePaes
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Pais comes from Galician, and ultimately from Portuguese.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Pais’s family of names
In Galician usage, Pais as a surname shares a linguistic root with the Spanish form Peláez. In Galician usage, Pais as a surname has a related form in Paz. In English usage, Pais as a surname has a related form in Paz.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Pais has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its Portuguese roots to each of them.
Portuguesewhere Pais comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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Patiño
“duckling”
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