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Dutch and German: humanistic name derived from Latin praetor the title of various officials in Republican and Imperial Rome sometimes adopted as the Latinized form of Dutch De Preter an occupational name for a supervisor commissioner or curator or of any of various German surnames meaning ‘leader’ or ‘headman’ (see Prator). The surname Pretorius is by far most common in South Africa; in the Netherlands and Germany it is very rare. In North America it is also an altered form of the more common German variant Prätorius.
Källa: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
