Priddy Family History
Priddy Name Meaning
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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Name Distribution of Priddy Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Priddy families
 41 - 80  14 - 40 |
 1 - 13  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Priddy families
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31 - 60 11 - 30 |
1 - 10 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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