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prator Name Meaning and History

German (Prätor): Latinized humanistic form of any of various surnames meaning ‘leader’ or ‘headman’, for example Mayer, Schultz, and Vogt. It is from Latin praetor, the title of various officials in Republican and Imperial Rome.

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Distribution of prator Families in the US in 1920
Number of prator families
 11-20
 4-10
 1-3
 0
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