Family name origins & meanings
- French : possibly representing Du Père, ‘of the father,’ meaning one who exercises the functions of protection, or teaching, like a father; alternatively a form of Du Peyre, patronymic from a regional variant of the personal name Pierre.
- In Charlesbourg, Quebec, in 1686 there was a family named Dupéré (also called <xref>Lariviere</xref>), originally from Tours.