"Precious" meaning in English

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        "A surname transferred from the nickname, originating as a male or female nickname."
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          "text": "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.",
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