Pruitt
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Frequency: (13800)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
French and English: nickname from a pet form of Old French proux ‘valiant’, ‘brave’, or ‘wise’ (see Proulx, Prue).
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