Pruneau
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Frequency: (161)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
French: topographic name for someone who lived by a plum tree, or a metonymic occupational name for someone who sold plums, from a diminutive of prune ‘plum’.
GIVEN NAMES: French 17%. Andre (3), Valmore (2), Cecile, Marjolaine, Nazaire, Normand, Rejean.
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Oxford Dictionary of Family Names
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