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Prigge Name Meaning
North German and English: voiced variant of Low German, Middle English prikke ‘piercing tool’ (from Dutch prikken ‘to pierce or prick’), hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who used such a tool (e.g. for cutting peat, catching eels, or indeed tattooing), or in the case of the English name possibly for a maker or user of pointed weapons.German: from an old personal name of uncertain origin.
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Name Distribution of Prigge Families
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United States
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Number of Prigge families
 21 - 39  8 - 20 |
 1 - 7  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Prigge families
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5 - 8 2 - 4 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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