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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Slovenian : metonymic occupational name for someone who grew spelt (a type of grain), from pira ‘spelt’ (dialect pir).
  • Slovenian : possibly from an unattested medieval respelled pet form of the personal name Peter.

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