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pear Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from Middle English pe(e)re ‘pear’ (Old English pere, peru, from Latin pirum), a metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of pears, or a topographic name for someone who lived by a pear tree or pear orchard.
  2. English: nickname from Middle English pere ‘peer’, ‘companion’ (Old French pe(e)r, from Latin par ‘equal’).
  3. Jewish: Americanization of some like-sounding Ashkenazic surname; e.g. possibly a shortened form of a surname such as Pearl, Pearlman, or Pearlstein.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of pear Families in the US in 1920
Number of pear families
 16-29
 6-15		 1-5
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Sidney Pear (abt 1916 - 1943) Serial Number O-797379 rajordan1928 0
Abraham PEAR/PEER-VA-IA otter_prof 0
SEEKING DESCENDANTS OF JOSEPH PEAR GwenK410 0
Martin Pear Elaine 0
Pere'/Lourdes/St. JuillienHaving a most difficult Babette Pere' 0
Pair - Pare - Pear Elayne Pair Gibbons 0
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