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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Prätor) : Latinized humanistic form of any of various surnames meaning ‘leader’ or ‘headman’, for example Mayer, Schultz, and Vogt. It is from Latin praetor, the title of various officials in Republican and Imperial Rome.

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