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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname for a noisy or boisterous person, from Middle High German pral ‘noise’.
  • English : habitational name from Prawle in Devon, probably named with Old English prāw ‘lookout’ + hyll ‘hill’.

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