Pere

Various origins:

• Borrowed from French Péré, a habitational surname.
• Borrowed from Catalan Pere, a personal name equivalent of Peter.
• Borrowed from Hungarian Pere.

Pere (plural Peres)

1. A surname.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Pere is the 36337^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 616 individuals. Pere is most common among White (53.41%) and Hispanic/Latino (35.55%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Pere”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

• pree, Reep, peer, Pree

Catalan Wikipedia has an article on:

Pere (nom)

Wikipedia ^ca

Inherited from Old Catalan Pere, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros). Compare Occitan Pèire, French Pierre, Spanish Pedro.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)
• Rhymes: -eɾe

Pere m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Peter

• diner de Sant Pere
• Peret

• “Pere” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From a dialectal variant of perhe.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈpereˣ/,
• Rhymes: -ere
• Hyphenation^(key): Pe‧re

Pere

1. a Finnish surname

• Pere is the 3030^th (tied with 15 other surnames) most common surname in Finland, belonging to 257 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

Borrowed from Occitan .

Pere ?

1. a surname from Occitan

Michel Grosclaude, Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de famille gascons, Orthez, per noste, 2003, →ISBN, page 208

See pere (“father”).

le Pere m (nominative singular Pere)

1. (Christianity) God

From Old Frisian *pere, from Proto-West Germanic *peru. Cognates include West Frisian par and German Birne.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeːrə/
• Hyphenation: Pe‧re
• Rhymes: -eːrə

Pere f (plural Peren)

1. pear

• Marron C. Fort (2015) “Pere”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN