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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern French : from a pet form of a personal name, a French form of Peter.
  • Italian : from an augmentative of the personal name Pero.
  • Spanish (Perón) : possibly from a pet form of the personal name Pedro or a Castilianized form of Catalan Peró (see Pero).

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