Prendiville Last Name: Meaning and Heraldic Roots

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Prendiville, so the heraldry linked to Prindiville is a starting point, not an automatic right.

The meaning behind Prendiville

Long before computers fixed spellings, Prendiville and Prindiville were used side by side. Taken at its root, Prendiville points to “Someone who came from Frendeville or Fermainville, in France”.

Spelled with “e” instead of “i”, Prendiville shows how the same name was heard and written differently. You may also find the name written Prindeville. The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Prendiville with 217 bearers, at rank 86,005. That is enough to place it in the top 100,000 American surnames.

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