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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from any of the various places in northern France called Saint-Pierre, from the dedication of their churches to St. Peter (see Peter).
  • Eastern German : from a medieval personal name Sindperht, from sind ‘journey’ + berht ‘shining’.
  • possibly variant of Catalan or Aragonese Samper.

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