Italian and Spanish: from the personal name Primo,
meaning ‘first’ (Latin Primus), given to the eldest son in a
family, or, in the case of the Italian name, a habitational name from
a place named with this word.Portuguese and Spanish: relationship
name, from primo ‘cousin’.Greek
(Primos): nickname for a sailor, from Greek primos in
the sense ‘favorable wind’, a derivative of Italian primo
‘first’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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