Pranger
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Frequency: (378)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. Dutch and North German: nickname for a brawler, from an agent derivative of Middle Dutch prangen, Middle Low German ‘to fight’.
2. German: nickname for an ostentatious or boastful person, from Middle High German brangen ‘to flaunt’, ‘to brag’.
3. Altered form of South German Pfranger or Pfränger, agent derivatives of Pfrange (see Prange 2) meaning ‘narrows’. In some instances this may have been a nickname for a narrow-minded person, from the same word in an abstract sense.
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