Papadakis surname origin and meaning?

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Papadakis surname origin and meaning?

Answer 1

This surname is from Crete (my place!). It means "son of  priest", our priests can marry, and traditionally have large families. It is one of the more common names.

And yes, it is popular in the Aegean islands too.

Answer 2

I disagree with the answerers above, although the ending -akis is found mostly in Crete, it can also be found in many Dodecanese islands, i have 2 friends one from Rhodes and the other from Karpathos with the same -akis ending.

Answer 3

ne kriti ine

akis means little and its only kriti name it s come from the turkey invasion

yeah barby! it s possible but almost the time it s a kriti name during the turquey invasion they call people frome kriti like that to laugh tem

edit=i talk about the roots of this maybe your friends have ancester who come from  kriti

and if you see the question she talk about origin and meaning