Last Name PRUITT

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Meaning	Nickname: The proud, the arrogant, the haughty. Medieval English 'prute.' The surname early assumed a disyllabic form. Nickname: The proud.

Origin	English, Irish

Rank	736 (2000 US census)	619 (1990 US census)

Count	42,463 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

75.13%, or 31902 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
20.8%, or 8832 total occurrences, as black,
0.25%, or 106 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.74%, or 314 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.68%, or 713 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.4%, or 594 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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