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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname from Latin primus ‘(the) first’, ‘(the) best’. Compare Furst.
  • German : variant of Primm (of Slavic origin and perhaps as ultimately from the same element as sense 1) (see Prim 1).

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