When Jan Pater was born on 1 August 1921, in Roderveld, Overijssel, Netherlands, his father, Tiddens Pater, was 32 and his mother, Jeltje Hovinga, was 27. He died on 24 January 1963, at the age of 41.
Some characteristic forenames: Polish Stanislaw, Tadeusz, Zbigniew, Mariusz, Wieslaw, Wieslawa, Wladyslaw.
Dutch, English, German, and Polish: from Latin pater ‘father’, also used to denote the father superior in a religious order, hence probably a nickname for a solemn or pompous man.
English: nickname from Middle English pater ‘paternoster’; see Paternoster .
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