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2013 Origins Available: German, Scottish Where did the Scottish
Pape family come from? What is the Scottish Pape family crest
and coat of arms? When did the Pape family first arrive in the
United States? Where did the various branches of the family go?
What is the Pape family history?The people known in ancient
Scotland as the Picts were the ancestors of the first to use
Pape as a name. It was a name for a confident or haughty person.
Pape is a nickname surname, which belongs to the category of
hereditary surnames. Nicknames form a broad and miscellaneous
class of surnames, and can refer directly or indirectly to one's
personality, physical attributes, mannerisms, or even their
habits of dress. The surname Pape comes from the Old English
word pope, which referred to the Bishop of Rome, and the head of
the Roman Catholic Church. Although this is also a title of
office, as a surname, it was most often applied as a nickname.
In medieval Scotland, n