as a Last Name
- 655
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Prideaux
Meaning & Origins
Cornish: habitational name from a place in the parish of Luxulyan, which is first recorded in the 12th and 13th centuries in the form Pridias, perhaps from Cornish prȳ ‘clay’ + an unknown word. Later forms of the place name, and hence the surname, show the results of folk etymological assimilation to French près d’eaux ‘beside waters’ or pré d’eaux ‘meadow of waters’.
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Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 655
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Kansas
- has the most people named Prideaux per capita
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