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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish, English, French, and German : nickname from Middle English and Old French prophete, Middle High German prophēt ‘prophet’, ‘seer’, ultimately from Greek prophētēs ‘predictor’, from pro ‘before’ + a derivative of phēmi ‘to speak’.

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