Pierre Family History

French Walloon West Indian (mainly Haiti) and Mauritian:: from the personal name Pierre French form of Peter (see also below). This is one of the most frequent surnames in Haiti (along with Jean and Joseph) and in Saint Martin. It is also established elsewhere in the West Indies (e.g. in Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Lucia, Grenada, and Bahamas).

from Old French pierre ‘stone, rock’ (from Latin petra, a word which is also the origin of the personal name Pierre; see Peter). It may be a topographic name denoting someone who lived on a patch of stony soil or by a large outcrop of rock.

Alternatively, it could be a metonymic occupational name for a quarryman or stonemason. Compare Lapierre.