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The perron Surname

perron Name Meaning and History

  1. southern French: from a southern pet form of the personal name Pierre, French form of Peter. This name is also established in England, taken there by the Huguenots.
  2. French: habitational name from places in Côte d’Or, Manche, Jura, and Mayenne named Perron or Le Perron, from pierre ‘stone’, ‘rock’.
  3. Spanish (Perrón): probably from an augmentative of perro ‘dog’.
  4. Italian: shortened form of Perrone.

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

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Distribution of perron Families in the US in 1920
Number of perron families
 65-127
 22-64		 1-21
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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