Save Type Surname (from nickname) Usage German Meaning & History From a nickname meaning "priest, cleric" from Old High German pfaffo, from Latin papa. Related NamesDetails VariantPabstOther Languages & CulturesPopov(Bulgarian) Pope(English) Pape(French) Papadopoulos(Greek) Papp(Hungarian) Papke(Low German) Popovski(Macedonian) Pop, Popa, Popescu(Romanian) Popov(Russian)