The meaning of the Pritchett Surname is both patronymic and metonymic. As with Pritchard, it was an Anglicized form of Welsh ap Rhisiart ‘son of Richard’. The other form of origin comes from the English, a diminutive of Middle English prik(e), prich ‘point’, ‘prick’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker or user of any of various pointed instruments, or a nickname for a tall, thin man.

PRITCHETT Surname Facts:

Frequency Comparisons

 

Total

Rank

Frequency %

Per million people

Great Britain

United Kingdom (current)

1193

4544

0.003

26

United Kingdom (1881 census)

715

5133

0.002

24

Change since 1881

+478

+589

+0.001

+2

Other Countries

United States

24306

1613

0.008

80

Australia

228

6683

0.001

14

 

 

The meaning of the Pritchard Surname is patronymic, son of Richard. This is from the Anglicized form of the Welsh ap Rhisiart which meant ‘son of Richard’.

PRITCHARD Surname Facts:

Frequency Comparisons

 

Total

Rank

Frequency %

Per million people

Great Britain

United Kingdom (current)

22481

239

0.049

489

United Kingdom (1881 census)

16125

245

0.054

538

Change since 1881

+6356

+6

-0.005

-49

Other Countries

United States

30382

1296

0.010

100

Australia

3393

441

0.021

208