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PRIDEAUX

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There are approximately 1,412 people named Prideaux in the UK. That makes it the 5,786th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 22 are named Prideaux.

Region of origin

British Isles

Country of origin

England

Language of origin

English

Religion of origin

Christian

Classification

English


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The Prideaux surname in historical dictionaries

PRIDEAUX. The castle of Prideaux, according to Tonkin (D. Gilbert's Cornwall, iii., oG), was " the seat of, and gave name to, a family which hath been very eminent both in this county and in Devonshire, and still flourisheth in both." " Some would derive it," he says, "from a French original : j}res d'cavx, near the waters, for the sea formerly iiowed up as high as this place." " The ancient family of Prideaux trace their descent from Pagauus, lord of Prideaux Castle, in Luxiiion, co. Cornwall, in the time of William I., where the family continued till the latter part of the fourteenth century." Shirley's Noble and Gentle Men,

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

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