The Last name "Payne", is it British, Welsh, Irish, Scottish?

the name probably comes from England.


If you work back on your ancestry, you will find you have 4 grandparents..8 gr grandparents.. 16 gr gr grandparents.


You are equally part of each of them.. and everyone will have a different last name and ancestry. Thus.. someone whose last name happens to be Payne can be all of the above heritage, depending on who they married. Think about it.


A last name is a very small part of your ancestry.

The Last name "Payne", is it British, Welsh, Irish, Scottish?
According to Ancestry.com, the surname Payne is an English variant of Paine as well as "a well-established surname" in Ireland.





The "Top Place of Origin for Payne", taken from New York Passenger Lists are


---England (687)


---Ireland (189)


---Great Britain (111)


---Scotland (29)


---Wales (13)


---London, England (9)





More Paynes lived in London than close to anywhere else in England, according to the 1891 Census for England and Wales:


---Kent (4%)


---Sussex (4%)


---Hampshire (6%)


---Somerset (4%)


---Gloucestershire (4%)


---Warwickshire (5%)


---Leichestershire (3%)


---Lancastershire (4%)


---Yorkshire (3%)


---London (20%)



Reply:This is my maiden name and have researched it extensively. While most Payne, Paine, Pain's come from England, you may find a few from Ireland.
Reply:Mainly English. Comes from the name 'pagan' which didn't necessarily mean a follower of pagan religion but was the term used for a country dweller.
Reply:british

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