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):

* Elizabeth Pain (c. 1652–1704), settler in Boston, Massachusetts
* James Pain (1779–1877), English architect
* Arthur Pain (1841–1920), bishop in Australia
* William Plain (1855–1924), British army officer
* Barry Pain (1864–1928), English journalist, poet and writer
* Edwin Pain (1891–1947), English cricketer
* Nesta Pain (1905–1995), British broadcaster and writer
* Peter Pain (1913–2003), British judge
* Rollo Pain (1921–2005), British army officer
* Edward Pain (1925–2000), Australian rower
* Jean Pain (1928–1981), Swiss inventor
* Denis Pain (1936–2019), New Zealand judge and sports administrator
* Quentin Pain (born 1956), British writer on accounting and entrepreneur
* Richard Pain (born 1956), bishop in Wales
* Susanna Pain (1957-), Australian Anglican priest, spiritual director
* Bedabrata Pain (born 1963), Indian scientist and film director
* Debbie Pain (active 1988–), British conservation biologist
* Jeff Pain (born 1970), Canadian skeleton racer
* François Pain (active 1990s), French film-maker
* Erwan Pain (born 1986), French ice hockey player
* Mélanie Pain (active 2004–), French singer
* Connor Pain (born 1993), Australian soccer player

## See also

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* Paine (surname)
* Pyne (surname)

## References

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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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