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The prater Surname

prater Name Meaning and History

  1. English: status name for a reeve, the chief magistrate or bailiff of a district, from Latin praetor.
  2. Dutch: occupational name for a warden of meadows or a gamekeeper, from Middle Dutch prater, preter (Latin pratarius, a derivative of pratum ‘meadow’).
  3. Dutch and North German: nickname for an excessively talkative person, from Middle Low German praten ‘to talk or prattle’.
  4. German: variant of Brater (see Brader 2).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The prater name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the prater family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of prater Families in the US in 1920
Number of prater families
 111-220
 38-110		 1-37
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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