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):