10,609 Global PROFFITT Family Members

PROFFITT Family History

Recorded in various spellings including Proffet, Profit, Proffitt, and Prophet, this is a 13th century English surname, but one of pre medieval French origins. It was presumably one introduced after the Norman Conquest and Invasion of England in 1066. It has two known possible sources. The first is that it is a metonymic or occupational name for a soothsayer or even a village elder. The derivation being from the pre 7th century Old French word "prophete", meaning one who supposedly speaks with divine knowledge, or one who can predict the future.