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Pera Surname Meaning

Italian (Sicily): from the personal name Pera, feminine form of Pero. Italian: metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of pears from pera ‘pear’. Catalan and Portuguese: habitational name from La Pera, a town in Girona province, Catalonia (Spain), or from any of various places called Pera in Portugal from Latin Petra ‘stone’.

Croatian: from the male personal name Pera, a pet form of Petar (see Peter). Assyrian/Chaldean: from a male personal name based on Syriac perā or pēʾrā ‘lamb’, with a Christian religious connotation (‘the lamb of God’).

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Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022

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You can see how Pera families moved over time by selecting different census years. The Pera family name was found in the USA, the UK, Canada, and Scotland between 1840 and 1920. The most Pera families were found in USA in 1920. In 1891 there were 3 Pera families living in Hertfordshire. This was about 33% of all the recorded Pera's in United Kingdom. Hertfordshire had the highest population of Pera families in 1891.

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What is the average Pera lifespan?

Between 1961 and 2004, in the United States, Pera life expectancy was at its lowest point in 1961, and highest in 2002. The average life expectancy for Pera in 1961 was 51, and 83 in 2004.

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