Heraldry and the Pepis Surname

Search old registers for Pepis and you will soon meet Pepys too. The name is usually explained as “From Pepin”.

The two spellings differ in a small detail: Pepis has “i” where Pepys has “y”. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The same family of names includes Peeps.

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