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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German (Prüter) : perhaps from a personal name formed with a cognate of Old English prūt ‘proud’.
  • North German (Prüter) : alternatively a nickname denoting a sloppy worker (used today in Schleswig-Holstein).

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