Pries
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Frequency: (515)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German: 1. habitational name from places such as Priesen or Priessen in eastern Germany, probably named with the Slavic topographic element bris- ‘birch’. 2. perhaps a nickname from Middle High German prīse ‘praiseworthy’.
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