Welsh and English: nickname from Welsh prid ‘precious’,
‘dear’ or Middle English pride ‘pride’; in the case of the
latter, applied to a vain or haughty or possibly on occasion to
someone who had played the part of Pride in a pageant of the Seven
Deadly Sins.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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