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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern French (Péré) : topographic name from a variant of périer ‘pear tree’.
  • Catalan : from the personal name Pere, Catalan equivalent of Peter.
  • English : variant of Pear 1.
  • Hungarian : from the old secular personal name Pere, Pöre.

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