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Type Surname (from occupation)
Occupational surname for a prior (a high-ranking official in a monastery), ultimately from Latin prior meaning "superior, first".
Type Surname (from occupation)
Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Mac an Phríora meaning "son of the prior".