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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Welsh : Anglicized form of Welsh ap Rhisiart ‘son of Richard’. Compare Pritchard.
  • English (Midlands) : from a diminutive of Middle English prik(e), prich ‘point’, ‘prick’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker or user of any of various pointed instruments, or a nickname for a tall, thin man.

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