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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch and German : metonymic occupational name for a shoemaker, from Middle Dutch priem(e) ‘awl’, Middle Low German prēme.
  • German : perhaps a habitational name from any of several places called Priemen in Pomerania and Bavaria.

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