Prime Family History
Prime Name Meaning
English: from a Middle English personal name or nickname. The personal name existed in Old English, and is probably derived from Old English prim ‘early morning’ (from Latin primus ‘first’, used as the name of one of the canonical hours). The surname may be derived from this word as a Middle English nickname in the sense ‘fine’, ‘excellent’.French: feminine form of Prim 3.Dutch: variant of Priem.Probably an Americanized spelling of German Preim, a topographic name (of Slavic origin), perhaps from a river near Hannover; or of Preime, a variant of Primus.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Prime Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Prime families
 48 - 93  17 - 47 |
 1 - 16  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Prime families
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72 - 142 25 - 71 |
1 - 24 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Prime families
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3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Prime Family Origin
Prime Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Prime
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Prime Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Prime census records
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