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Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Priest.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for someone who ironed clothes, from Yiddish pres ‘flat iron’.

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