Pruyn
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Frequency: (208)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Dutch: variant of Pruim, from Middle Dutch prume ‘plum’, a metonymic occupational name for someone who grew or sold plums, or possibly a nickname, for example for someone with a plum-colored birthmark. See also Prine.
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