Press is a surname with two unrelated origins. In England and Wales, it derives from Priest or
Price. In Eastern Europe (especially centered around Minsk), it is a Jewish name, likely derived from the Sephardic surname
Peres (
Perez,
Peretz,
Perutz).[1] It also is a
metonymic occupational surname that refers to the occupation of someone who ironed clothes, derived from the Yiddish "pres" or flat iron. [2]
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