Pera Family History
Pera Name Meaning
Catalan and Portuguese: habitational name from La Pera,
a town in Girona province, Catalonia, or from any of various places
called Pera in Portugal, from Latin Petra ‘stone’.Italian:
metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of pears, from
pera ‘pear’. EC, DK, kh.
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Name Distribution of Pera Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Pera families
 24 - 46  9 - 23 |
 1 - 8  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Pera families
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3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Pera Family Origin
Pera Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Pera
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Pera Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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