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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish (chiefly County Down) : variant of Prey.
  • English : topographic name for someone who lived by a meadow, from Middle English pre(y), Old French pree ‘meadow’, or a habitational name from any of the minor places deriving their name from this word, of which there are several examples in Surrey.

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