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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : unexplained.
  • Catalan : topographic name from Catalan paret ‘wall’ (compare Paredes).
  • Catalan : variant of Peret, diminutive of the personal name Pere, or from paret, a diminutive of pare ‘father’.

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