Pagon meaning | Last name Pagon origin

Lastname Pagon is the form of the Pan. Corresponds with an Old German name Panno.

Variant form of the Pagan. Paganus was a Norman personal name, whence the modern Payne and Paine, as well as the more ancient Paganel and Paynel. Pagan, however, exists at this day among English surnames. See 16th Report of Registr.

Gen. In the words of Gibbon. "Hayn, in the Doric dialect, so familiar to the Italians, signifies a fountain; and the rural neighbourhood which frequented the same fountain derived the common appellation of pagus and pagans. 2. By an easy extension of the word, pagan and rural be came synonymous, and the meaner rustics acquired that name, which has been corrupted into peasant in the modern languages of Europe. 3. The amazing increase of the military order introduced the necessity of a correlative term; and all the people who were not enlisted in the service of the prince were branded with the contemptuous epithet of Pagans. 4. The Christians were the soldiers of Christ; their adversaries, who refused his sacrament, or military oath of baptism, might deserve the metaphorical name of Pagans; and this popular reproach was introduced as early as the reign of Valentinian, A.D. 365, into Imperial laws and theological writings. 5. Christianity gradually filled the cities of the empire; the old religion in the time of Prudentius and Orosius retired and languished in obscure villages; and the word pagan, with its new signification, reverted to its primitive origin. 6. Since the worship of Jupiter and his family has expired, the vacant title of Pagans has been successively applied to all the idolaters and polytheists of the old and new world. 7. The Latin Christians bestowed it, without scruple, on their mortal enemies, the Mahometans; and the purest unitarians were branded with the unjust reproach of idolatry and paganism." Decline and Fall, chap. xxi. ad finem. The historian quotes numerous authorities. Other remarks on this word may be found in Mill's Logic; and Dean Trench, in his Study of Words, makes admirable use of the changes it has undergone. As a personal name, and a surname, Pagan and its derivatives were probably applied by way of sobriquet. Like Boor, Le Sauvage, and Wildman, they may have had some reference to the rusticity or rudeness of the original bearers—some Northmen probably—who after the Conquest of Neustria, and the baptism of their chieftain Rollo, still declined to become Christians, and remained wedded to their old Scandinavian superstitions. William the Conqueror was assisted in his invasion, by several persons so designated, and in Domesday Book, we find among his tenants in capite, or chief holders of land, the names of Ralph Paganel and Edmund filius Pagani, i.e., Fitz-Payne. Indeed during the Norman dynasty, Paganus was one of the most common names in England; and it is to this cause that we must assign the great frequency of the name of Payne or Paine, in our family nomenclature. In times more recent than the Conquest, there have doubtless been various settlements of this widely spread name in England; for example, the Paynes who settled in Norfolk in the XV century, claim descent from the ancient house of Paynel of Hambie, in the arrondissement of Coutances. The change from Paynel to Payne was made, it is supposed, in order to evade the vexatious laws then in force respecting aliens. Recent research has proved the identity of the names Paganus and Paganellus, and consequently of Payne and Paynel; for in a branch of the Pagnels or Paynels of Hambie, settled in Yorkshire, both appellatives are frequently applied to the same individual.

Surname is variation of Pannel. See under Pagan or Paganel, of which this is an easy corruption - Paganus was a Norman personal name, whence the modern Payne and Paine, as well as the more ancient Paganel and Paynel. Pagan, however, exists at this day among English surnames. See 16th Report of Registr.

Gen. In the words of Gibbon. "Hayn, in the Doric dialect, so familiar to the Italians, signifies a fountain; and the rural neighbourhood which frequented the same fountain derived the common appellation of pagus and pagans. 2. By an easy extension of the word, pagan and rural be came synonymous, and the meaner rustics acquired that name, which has been corrupted into peasant in the modern languages of Europe. 3. The amazing increase of the military order introduced the necessity of a correlative term; and all the people who were not enlisted in the service of the prince were branded with the contemptuous epithet of Pagans. 4. The Christians were the soldiers of Christ; their adversaries, who refused his sacrament, or military oath of baptism, might deserve the metaphorical name of Pagans; and this popular reproach was introduced as early as the reign of Valentinian, A.D. 365, into Imperial laws and theological writings. 5. Christianity gradually filled the cities of the empire; the old religion in the time of Prudentius and Orosius retired and languished in obscure villages; and the word pagan, with its new signification, reverted to its primitive origin. 6. Since the worship of Jupiter and his family has expired, the vacant title of Pagans has been successively applied to all the idolaters and polytheists of the old and new world. 7. The Latin Christians bestowed it, without scruple, on their mortal enemies, the Mahometans; and the purest unitarians were branded with the unjust reproach of idolatry and paganism." Decline and Fall, chap. xxi. ad finem. The historian quotes numerous authorities. Other remarks on this word may be found in Mill's Logic; and Dean Trench, in his Study of Words, makes admirable use of the changes it has undergone. As a personal name, and a surname, Pagan and its derivatives were probably applied by way of sobriquet. Like Boor, Le Sauvage, and Wildman, they may have had some reference to the rusticity or rudeness of the original bearers—some Northmen probably—who after the Conquest of Neustria, and the baptism of their chieftain Rollo, still declined to become Christians, and remained wedded to their old Scandinavian superstitions. William the Conqueror was assisted in his invasion, by several persons so designated, and in Domesday Book, we find among his tenants in capite, or chief holders of land, the names of Ralph Paganel and Edmund filius Pagani, i.e., Fitz-Payne. Indeed during the Norman dynasty, Paganus was one of the most common names in England; and it is to this cause that we must assign the great frequency of the name of Payne or Paine, in our family nomenclature. In times more recent than the Conquest, there have doubtless been various settlements of this widely spread name in England; for example, the Paynes who settled in Norfolk in the XV century, claim descent from the ancient house of Paynel of Hambie, in the arrondissement of Coutances. The change from Paynel to Payne was made, it is supposed, in order to evade the vexatious laws then in force respecting aliens. Recent research has proved the identity of the names Paganus and Paganellus, and consequently of Payne and Paynel; for in a branch of the Pagnels or Paynels of Hambie, settled in Yorkshire, both appellatives are frequently applied to the same individual.