Pain (surname) explained

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

• Paine (surname)
• Pyne (surname)

Notes and References

1. Book: The Oxford dictionary of family names in Britain and Ireland . 2016 . 9780199677764 . 2 July 2020. Hanks . Patrick . Coates . Richard . (Historian) . Peter Mcclure .
2. Book: Dictionary of American family names . Oxford University Press . 9780195081374 . 2 July 2020.
3. Web site: Genesis of Utkala Brahmins. Utkal Brahmin. 2 July 2020.