Precious

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English[edit]

 Precious (surname) on Wikipedia
 Precious (given name) on Wikipedia

Proper noun[edit]

Precious

  1. A surname transferred from the nickname, originating as a male or female nickname.
  2. A female given name from English.
    • 2009, Alexander McCall Smith, Tea Time for the Traditionally Built, Abacus, published 2010, →ISBN, page 6:
      She and Mma Ramotswe were fortunate, with their reasonably straightforward names of Grace and Precious respectively; she had contemporaries who were not so fortunate and had been saddled by their parents with names that were frankly ridiculous.

Cebuano[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English Precious.

Proper noun[edit]

Precious

  1. a female given name from English