Family name origins & meanings
- English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from any of various places, for example in Aisne and Calvados, so called from Old French pierre ‘stone’ + pont ‘bridge’.
- All the New England Pierpont lines seem to be descended from James and his sons John and Robert, who came to America about 1640. James also may have had a brother Robert who was part of that group. The southern Pierpo(i)nt family are descended from Henry, who came to the VA–MD region in 1635.