Prussian
names were used by speakers of
Old Prussian in Prussia, on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea.
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PINSKER German, PrussianHabitational name from any of several places named near Posen (Polish Poznan) and in West Prussia.
TURNBO Prussian (Modern, Rare), German (East Prussian, Modern, Rare), American (Americanized, Modern, Rare), German (Modern, Rare)Originally the name was spelled Dornbach, meaning "thorny creek". Derived from Old High German Dorn, Turn, or Torn "thorn" and Bach meaning creek. German ancestors of this family eventually came to Pennsylvania in 1725, the name slowly started to change to Turnbach around the 1850's, reasoning unknown, and later Turnbo...
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