Southern French (Péré): topographic name from a
variant of périer ‘pear tree’.Catalan: from the
personal name Pere, Catalan equivalent of Peter.English: variant of Pear 1.Hungarian: from the old
secular personal name Pere, Pöre.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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