Pain (surname)

Pain is a surname. The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland records it as a variant of Payne, along with Paine, Payn, Pane, Payen, Payan, Panes, and Pagan. The name Payne is believed to derive from the medieval English personal name Pagan.[1] The Dictionary of American Family Names describes Pain as a variant of the name Paine.[2]

Pain is also an alternative spelling of the Indian surname Pyne.[3]

Notable people with the surname include (birth date order):

See also

References

  1. Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; (Historian), Peter Mcclure (2016). The Oxford dictionary of family names in Britain and Ireland. ISBN 9780199677764. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  2. Dictionary of American family names. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195081374. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  3. Utkal Brahmin. "Genesis of Utkala Brahmins". Retrieved 2 July 2020.
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