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The pierce Surname

pierce Name Meaning and History

  1. English, Welsh, and Irish: from the personal name Piers, the usual Norman vernacular form of Peter. In Wales this represents a patronymic ap Piers. In Ireland it represents a reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Piarais ‘son of Piaras’, a Gaelicized form of Piers.
  2. Americanized form of some similar-sounding Jewish surname.

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

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the pierce family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of pierce Families in the US in 1920
Number of pierce families
 833-1664
 278-832		 1-277
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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