Pranger Family History
Pranger Name Meaning
Dutch and North German: nickname for a brawler, from an agent
derivative of Middle Dutch prangen, Middle Low German ‘to
fight’.German: nickname for an ostentatious or boastful person,
from Middle High German brangen ‘to flaunt’, ‘to brag’.Altered form of South German Pfranger or
Pfränger, agent derivatives of Pfrange (see
Prange 2) meaning ‘narrows’. In some instances this may have
been a nickname for a narrow-minded person, from the same word in an
abstract sense.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Pranger Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Pranger families
 10 - 18  4 - 9 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Pranger families
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3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Pranger last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Pranger Family Origin
Pranger Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Pranger
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Pranger Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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