as a Last Name
- 2,054
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Prudhomme
Meaning & Origins
French (Prud’homme) and English (of Norman origin): nickname from Old French prud’homme ‘wise’, ‘sensible man’, a cliché term of approbation from the chivalric romances. It is a compound of Old French proz, prod ‘good’, with the vowel influenced by crossing with prudent ‘wise’ + homme ‘man’.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 2,054
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Louisiana
- has the most people named Prudhomme per capita
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