The preuss Surname
preuss Name Meaning and History
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): regional name for someone from
Prussia (German Preussen), a former state of northern Germany,
so called from the ethnic name of the Pruzzen, a Baltic people
displaced by the Germans during the 13th century, or an ethnic name
for a member of this people.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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