Where does the last name pagan come from?

Question:my mother side of the family last name is pagan. I was wondering where it came from because my mother is of Hispanic origin and her maiden last name doesn't seem very Hispanic.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: my mother side of the family last name is pagan. I was wondering where it came from because my mother is of Hispanic origin and her maiden last name doesn't seem very Hispanic.

Pagan
Spanish (Pagán): Castilianized spelling of Catalan Pagà, from the Late Latin personal name Paganus, which originally meant ‘dweller in an outlying village’ (see Paine).
Spanish: in some cases it may be a topographic name from Catalan pagà ‘heath’, from Latin pagus ‘district’, ‘outlying village’.
Northern English and Scottish: probably from the Latin medieval personal name Paganus, the vernacular form of which was Paine (see Paine

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