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pereira Name Meaning and History

Portuguese, Galician, and Jewish (Sephardic): topographic name from Portuguese pereira ‘pear tree’, or a habitational name from a place named with this word in Portugal and Galicia. The surname is also common in western India, having been taken there by Portuguese colonists.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The pereira name in History

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Distribution of pereira Families in the US in 1920
Number of pereira families
 52-102
 18-51		 1-17
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 132 - Messages: 425
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Pereiras in CA Irena Pereira 9
looking for Lavoie and/or Pereira family nagreene4 0
Perry/Pereira from Massachusetts/Azores Maggie Lemken 28
PEREIRA/PERREIRA adelaida rose 20
Russell Pereira Judy Pereira Hagler 10
Joaquin Pereira (1893-1932) PhilPerry56 4
Deidamia PEREIRA, esposa de German DECKER Yllas (o Illas) PhiDeck 0
Looking for Pereira Family in El Salvador ppereira87 1
looking for my father & his family bernie35ne 0
Antonio Pereira Rodrigues? evanarchilla 0
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