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perez Name Meaning and History

  1. Spanish (Pérez) and Jewish (Sephardic): patronymic from the personal name Pedro, Spanish equivalent of Peter.
  2. Jewish: variant of Peretz.

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perez Family Facts

Distribution of perez Families in the US in 1920
Number of perez families
 706-1409
 236-705		 1-235
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