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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : from Middle Dutch prince ‘prince’, either an occupational name for someone in the service of a prince or a nickname for someone who behaved in a regal manner or who had won the title in some contest of skill.
  • Jewish (from the Netherlands) : ornamental adoption of Dutch prins ‘prince’.

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