Given name & surname
Pry
“of the cattle-spoil”
Pry is a surname with more than one origin.
Meaning & origin
What it means
As an Irish surname, Pry probably goes back to a word meaning “of the cattle-spoil.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Pry has more than one origin: as an Irish surname, it goes back to a word meaning “of the cattle-spoil”; as a German surname, it goes back to a word meaning “brew”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Pry’s family of names
In English usage, Pry as a surname has a related form in PREY.
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