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First name origin & meaning:

Old French: Valiant one

First name variations: Pruit, Prue, Prewet, Prewit, Prewitt, Prewitt

Last name origin & meaning:

French and English: nickname from a pet form of Old French proux ‘valiant’, ‘brave’, or ‘wise’ (see Proulx, Prue).