Given name & surname · also German

Pancake

Pancake is a surname from German, ultimately from Dutch.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Pancake comes from German, and ultimately from Dutch.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

In English usage, Pancake as a surname developed from Pannekoek.

Pancake’s family of names

In English usage, Pancake as a surname developed from the Dutch form Pannekoek.

Walk Pancake’s family in the name graph

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Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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Ancient Greek

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Dutch

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German · Nature

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“palm tree”

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Dutch

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Dutch

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Dutch

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“bloodhound”

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Dutch

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Dutch

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Sibling ideas

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