Perrier Family History

French: occupational name for a quarryman or stone breaker from Old French perrier, an agent derivative of pierre ‘stone rock’. French: habitational name from (Le) Perrier, the name of several places in various parts of France.

English: topographic name for someone who lived by a pear tree from Middle English perie ‘pear tree’ + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.

English (of Norman origin): occupational name either from Old French perrier perrieur ‘quarrier stone breaker’ (compare 1 above) or given the implied high social status of some of the early English bearers from an agent derivative of Old French and Middle English perri pirri ‘precious stone’ hence ‘jeweler’.