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Price and Pryce are surnames common among those of Welsh ancestry, as they are an anglicized form of the Welsh patronymic ap Rhys, meaning "son of Rhys" (Rhys also left the surnames Rees, Rice and Preece). 

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• Price DNA Project.  Price genealogies and Price DNA results.

Wales.  The first Welsh Prices came from present day Gywnedd.  One early Price family can be traced from Rhys ap Meredydd (Rhys Fawr) who fought for Henry Tudor at Bosworth Field in 1485.  He was a huge man and, according to legend, slew the English King Richard III with his own hands.  He was suitably rewarded. The family home was at Rhiwlas in Denbighshire. 

Other Prices were sheriffs of Montgomery (now Powys) in the 17th century, from whose number came John Price the emigrant to Virginia in 1620.  By the 19th century, more Welsh Prices were to be found in south Wales.  Pryce is a variant spelling.

England.  Price also emerged, independently of the Welsh, as a surname in southeast England.  It is thought possibly to have derived there from the Old French pris and denoted someone who set prices.

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Richard Price was a Welsh moral and political philosopher of the 18th century..
Thomas Price, also known by his bardic name of Carnhuanawc, was a Welsh historian and writer of the early 19th century.
William Price was a 19th century physician and eccentric, best known today for his promotion of cremation.
Vincent Price was an American actor best known for his performances in horror movies.
Dick Price was co-founder in 1962 of the Esalen Institute in California.
Jonathan Pryce is a well-known Welsh stage actor who has made his name in musicals.
Nick Price from Zimbabwe is one of the leading golfers of the world.

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• 106,000 in the UK (most numerous in London)
• 73,000 in America (most numerous in Texas)
• 42,000 elsewhere (most numerous in Canada)