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Pérez is a very common Castilian Spanish surname of patronymic origin.

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Surname.name
Pérez
Surname.meaning
Spanish: "Son of Pedro"
Surname.region
Spain
Surname.language
Spanish
Surname.variant
Spanish surnames: Pédrez, Perez, Peres, Peris, Peiris, Peiriz, Pires, Piriz, Pritz, Peters

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Soundex
P620
Cologne phonetics
178
native label
Pérez
Caverphone
PRS111
Commons category
Pérez (surname)
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Pérez is a very common Castilian Spanish surname of patronymic origin.

==Origins== The surname, written in Spanish orthography as , is a patronymic surname meaning "son of Pedro" ("Pero" in archaic Spanish), the Spanish equivalent of Peter. At the same time, the name Pedro derives from the Latin name Petrus, meaning "rock or stone". Among many other counterparts, some of its equivalents are Peres or Pires in Portuguese, Peris in Catalan, Peters in German, Petrović in Serbo-Croatian, Petrescu in Romanian and Peterson in English and Scandinavian languages.

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