Family name origins & meanings
- French and English : occupational name for a quarryman, from Old French perrier, an agent derivative of pierre ‘stone’, ‘rock’.
- English : topographic name for someone who lived by a pear tree, from Middle English perie ‘pear tree’ + the suffix -er, denoting an inhabitant.
- A Perrier, also called <xref>Lafleur</xref>, from the Béarn region of France, is documented in Quebec City in 1666. Another, from Brittany, bore the secondary surname <xref>Olivier</xref>.