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Updated June 9, 2019

How Popular Is The Name Pretty

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (chiefly East Anglia) : nickname for a fine or handsome fellow, from Middle English prety, prity ‘fine’, ‘pleasing’, ‘excellent’ (Old English prættig ‘clever’, ‘artful’, ‘wily’).

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