The prairie Surname

prairie Name Meaning and History

French: topographic name from prairie ‘meadow’, ‘pasture’. In North America this is often a translation of French surnames such as Lepre and Dupre.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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prairie Family Facts

Distribution of prairie Families in the US in 1920

Number of prairie families

10-17

4-9

1-3

Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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PRAIRIE, Anthony Y. - NY>NC>VA - Anyone Know This Name?	watbull	1
Mrs. Mollie Prairie received a verdict in her lawsuit against Shawnee Light and Power Company	maryachtrh	0
Joseph P. Prairie bc 1834 Lower Canada	stemmatis	1
Prairie dit Piedalue	lttlefeathr	3
Prairies in MA	Pamela Banning	8
Prairie	LouiseRegnier75	0
Looking for Prairie	Melanie Maynard	0
Prairie/Chavez	Eva Hahn	0
Forefather from Rhode Island	Ken Prairie	8
Ellen L. Prairie obit from NY 2000	LauraRivers66	0

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