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prophet Name Meaning and History

Scottish, English, French, and German: nickname from Middle English and Old French prophete, Middle High German prophet ‘prophet’, ‘seer’, ultimately from Greek prophetes ‘predictor’, from pro ‘before’ + a derivative of phemi ‘to speak’. As an American family name, this name has absorbed some cases of Greek Profitis and Profitidis.

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

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

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Distribution of prophet Families in the US in 1920
Number of prophet families
 13-23
 5-12		 1-4
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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