The priddy Surname
priddy Name Meaning and History
- Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Rhiddid ‘son of Rhiddid’, a personal name of unexplained etymology.
- Welsh: Anglicized form of ap Redith ‘son of Redith’, a short form of Meredith; the short form occurs only in this Anglicized spelling.
- Welsh: from the personal name Predyr, Peredur (perhaps from Old Welsh peri ‘spears’ + dur ‘hard’, ‘steel’), which was borne, in Arthurian legend, by one of the knights of the Round Table.
- Welsh: occupational name, from Welsh prydydd ‘bard’.
- English: habitational name from Priddy in Somerset, named probably with Celtic words meaning ‘earth house’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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